Journalism Quotes

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

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

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

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.