Journalism Quotes

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.

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.

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.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

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.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

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