Best 546 quotes in «journalism quotes» category

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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

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

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I was able to study 50 years of leadership theory and practicum in my master's program at Seton Hall, and it has provided the backbone of the knowledge we use every day. My undergraduate work was in journalism, and my early work as a newspaper reporter taught me how to research, write, and rewrite.

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

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

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

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

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

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

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

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

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

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

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

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

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

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

Journalism is organized gossip.

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

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

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.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

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

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

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

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

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.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.