Journalism Quotes

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

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.

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

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.