Journalism Quotes

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.