Journalism Quotes

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

There is no democracy without journalism.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.