Best 546 quotes in «journalism quotes» category

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

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

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.

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

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

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.

The press is the enemy.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

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.

The real news is bad news.

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

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

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

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

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

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

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.

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

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that are considered legitimate journalism and illegitimate journalism.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

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

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.

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

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

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.

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

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

What I hold dear is well-known to all of my colleagues. And, really, The Times is the kind of place, the greatest journalism doesn't just pop forth from our heads. It's, you know, a group of people, and the great ideas bubble up from the reporters to their editors and get to us.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm doing weird stuff with the structure. I've got images, I've got lyrics, and I've got journalism. I really try to not get stuck in genre expectations.

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.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.