#journalist

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#artist #engaged #i #i think #important

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. ↗

— Sam Peckinpah

#i #interview #journalists #plagiarists #should

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#life

The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else ↗

— Lee Shippey

#life

Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you’re sleeping. It takes little things at first; your appetite, your desire to return phone calls. Then it comes back for the big stuff, like your will to live. Then next thing you know, your legs are filled with sand. The thought of brushing your teeth fills you with dread, it seems like such an impossible task. Suddenly you’re living your life in black and white – nothing is bright, nothing is pretty anymore. Music sounds tinny and distant. Things you found funny seem dull and off-key. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#psychological #suspense #funny

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#journalism #revolution #writing #journalist

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#enough #hands #his #journalist #lawyer

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977) ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#international-relations #journalists #politics #journalist