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Your Quotes for 10 November 2005 - Journalism

A week ago I ran a series of quotes on journalism, some of it rather critical. A member of the fourth estate, apparently not having noticed how much I truly value journalism, took exception to some of the criticism. Okay, if you missed it before, there is very little in this life that I value more highly than the free exchange of information from one person to another, and I particularly value those who devote their working lives to gathering information to share with the public. These quotes are going out today because press baron Joseph Pulitzer was born at Mako, Hungary on this day in 1847. Although his New York World was involved in the "yellow journalism" of the late nineteenth century, he went on to endow the school of journalism at Columbia University and his will established the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
     - Burton Rascoe

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others.
     - Marguerite Duras

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.
     - François Auguste René Rodin, 1840 - 1917

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
     -  Felix Frankfurter, 1882 - 1965

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
     - Tom Stoppard

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