Quotes on Journalism

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

Joseph Campbell

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

Oscar Wilde

“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”

Amy L. Bernstein

Journalism is about covering important stories — with a pillow, until they stop moving.

George F Will