Journalism Quotes

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

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

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

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.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

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

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

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.

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

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.