Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
-- Rebecca West

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa (Loose Talk, 1980)

Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
-- Arnold Bennett