Journalism · Skopia

Quotes

8

Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic · 1840

★ 5.2

Political literature

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

1920

★ 5.1

We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Chicago Labor Enquirer · 1888

★ 4.3

Essay · Magazine

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 3.6

All 8 in quotes →

Books

5

Lost Illusions

Honore de Balzac

1843★ 7.0

Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

1988★ 6.8

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1974★ 6.3

Scoop

1938★ 6.0

The Journalist and the Murderer

1990★ 5.3

Movies

1

La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini

1960★ 8.8