Journalism Quotes

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Do not read the newspapers.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.