Journalism Quotes
Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine.
Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.
They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.
As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.
Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.
When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.
The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.
Getting an interview with someone is like asking your good-looking cousin to go out with a friend of a friend on a blind date: you must approach the subject Just So.
How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?
If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!
It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano.
It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.
In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.
It is not the job of the media to try to skew events but to report on events honestly. Anything else is journalistic malpractice.
Go and nose out the next piece of shit... as one said in the trade. If nothing else was available, you could run an article on the latest miracle diet. That always worked.
I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.
Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.
Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.
I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.
In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.
The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.
The dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons
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.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.
I teach my students that you can't be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down.
How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.
These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.
At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.
Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.
The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place.
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.