Quotes About Journalism

I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

I've learned I can't really affect or control what journalists write, so I just try my best to be transparent and answer the questions that are asked of me.

It used to be that the longest unprotected border in the world was that between the United States and Canada. Today it's the one between fact and fiction. If the two cozy up any closer together The National Enquirer will be out of business.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

The media—stenographers to power.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.