Journalism Quotes

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

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.

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.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

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.

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.

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.