Journalism Quotes

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.