Journalism Quotes

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

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.

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

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.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

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.

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.

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.

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.