Journalism Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.