Journalism Quotes

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

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.