Journalism Quotes
If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.
Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.
It’s true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.
Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.
Journalism can be lethal
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
The prose, ” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.
...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.
With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.
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.
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.