Quotes About Journalism

No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Music journalist Chris Nelson once wrote, "Their friendship formed the living core of the Minutemen, while their loyalty to each other and San Pedro informed the overarching theme of brotherhood that permeates the band's catalog.

Bosch counted twenty-two names and it made him miss the old Los Angeles Times. In 1993 it was big and strong, its editions fat with ads and stories produced by a staff of some of the best and brightest journalists in their field. Now the paper looked like somebody who had been through chemo—thin, unsteady, and knowing the inevitable could only be held off for so long.

If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.

Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The Crossing. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida.

It was the era of fake news and reporters being labeled by those in power as enemies of the people. Newspapers were folding right and left and some said the industry was in a death spiral. Meanwhile, there was a rise in biased and unchecked reporting and media sites, the line increasingly blurring between impartial and agenda-based journalism.

Think of all the great journalism we've seen in our lifetimes. The corruption exposed, the public benefit. Where's that going to come from now with every paper in the country getting shredded? Our government? No way. TV, the blogs? Forget it. My friend who took the buyout in Florida says corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.

Joel Bremmer, Times Staff Writer

charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch

Algunos analistas de medios de comunicación han advertido que en los informativos de hoy en día no se comprueba nada de nada. Se redacta la noticia y se busca una nueva, afirma un periodista. Otro colega ha opinado, a condición de que no se revele su identidad: Hay que reconocer que era una notición. Si se hubiera comprobado, no habría habido noticia.

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion. Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995

But now reporters came to the story with the lead fixed in their minds; they saw their job as proving what they already knew. They didn't want information so much as evidence of villainy. In this mode, they were openly skeptical of your point of view, since they assumed you were just being evasive. They proceeded from a presumption of universal guilt, in an atmosphere of muted hostility and suspicion.

Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be the story in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object preventing us from seeing the truth of what is really going on beneath the surface of our attention, what will most deeply affect people's lives in time.