Journalism Quotations | Page 4

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

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

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I don't see any way she could have returned to the paper because she had violated the code of professional journalism in so many ways that I didn't see the staff able to accept her again. I don't think her peers understood why she went to prison in the first place and why she left when she left.

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

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

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

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

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

The real news is bad news.

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

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

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising,

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

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

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

The key is retaining the essential DNA of the show. Nightline is a beacon for smart, intelligent journalism and must remain so,

These journalists join an ever-increasing number of professionals recognized by their peers over the last 10 years. They've become part of a new community of excellence, representing the best in African journalism and maintaining the highest standards of journalistic integrity.

This is more than a fascinating business story. There is an important public interest ? a community interest ? in the outcome that deserves greater attention. For journalism is not just a business. It's a public trust, an essential element in the democratic mosaic.

A key feature of this curriculum enrichment focus is to offer students a deep and multi-layered exploration of complex subjects like history, politics, classics and philosophy that will undergird their journalistic skills. The Corporation hopes to encourages journalism schools to go beyond their current boundaries-to be expansive about the kind of courses and information their students should absorb while attempting to raise the profile of journalism education and its place within the university.

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

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

A national accreditation scheme implies regulation and de facto licensing of reporters, a concept abhorrent to most of us. Let individual journalism programs forge partnerships with industry rather than force-fitting everyone to a single system. Employers know which courses produce the best graduates and many choose to look no further.

The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding between communities, that will reduce tension and that will enhance the quality of journalism on all sides.

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

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

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 me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

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

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

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

Profiles aren't journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

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

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

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.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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.

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

There is no democracy without journalism.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

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

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.

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

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

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."