Journalism Quotes

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.