Journalism Quotes

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

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.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

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.

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.