Journalism Quotes

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

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.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

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

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.

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.