#journal

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#gonzo-journalism #family

In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society. ↗

— John Grogan

#inspirational #journalism #memoir #family

Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we are able to know and publish them—the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria—feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . ↗

— Harry Chandler

#imagination

You know it's easy here to buy journalists. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#easy #here #journalists #know #you

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow. ↗

— Will McDonough

#good #groomed #journalists #many #really

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#come #does #exist #journalists #privacy

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#believe #gets #journalists #more #more and more

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#around #beyond #experiences #i #i think

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#apt #britain #conversation #extension #history

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#finding #investigative #journalism #literally #otherwise