Journalism Quotes

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

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.

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.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

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.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.