Journalism Quotes

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.

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

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

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.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

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

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

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.

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

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.