Journalism Quotes

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

You can crush a man with journalism.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

And that's the way it is.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.