Journalism Quotes

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

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.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.