Journalism Quotes

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.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

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

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The first rough draft of history.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Journalism is organized gossip.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

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

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.