“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”
Harold Evans

“Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.”
Kingsley Amis

“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
Ellen Goodman

“Newspapers are unable seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
Norman Mailer

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.”
Mark Twain

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.”
Oscar Wilde

“Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers won’t object to.”
Hannen Swafffer