Journalism Quotes

I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive, ” says Ora.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes, ' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

Allow your mind to be still and rest in His presence.

I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes, ” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.

What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

I was not born to wait.

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.

In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyretechnics associated with us

But at the time, a mark of how far down the rabbit hole I had fallen, I saw it as just another tragedy I needed to stuff in the growing box in the back of my head. Shut the top and move on.

My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.

Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation!

I swear it only hit me then, with full conscious force, who the real villains of this piece had been from start to finish…those lying, cancerous dogs of the mainstream media!

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!

The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.