Journalism Quotes

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.

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

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

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.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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

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

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

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

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.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

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

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

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

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.