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Quotes About Journalism

He was doing journalism in order to eat, which is a very good way of learning journalism. Probably the only real way, come to think of it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Already had one reporter worm her
~ Tess Gerritsen
for he could feel their eager eyes and their eager words as clearly as he could hear their scratching pens. And all for the papers—his blanching face and trembling hands—they would have that down—and his mother in Denver and everybody else there in Lycurgus would see and read—how he had looked at the Aldens and they had looked at him and then he had looked away again.
~ Theodore Dreiser
I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.
~ Chris Robinson
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
~ Bob Woodward
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
~ Alex Gibney
Do you have a year to tell you what I have been through as a woman working in journalism? I went through hell. A lot of discrimination, everything you can think of.
~ Connie Chung
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
~ Kingsley Amis
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
~ Max Weber
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
~ Christiane Amanpour
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
~ Frank Harris
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
~ Campbell Brown
What we want is responsible journalism. We want to avoid bigotry.
~ Mehdi Hasan
I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
~ Pete Hamill
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
~ Stephen Fry
The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?
~ Dan Bongino
I believe frontline journalism is important.
~ James Foley
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
~ Chris Jericho
I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.
~ Jonathan Miles
My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
~ Chris Hillman
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
~ Chris Milk
It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.
~ Jake Tapper
Even journalism has ethics and everyone should follow them.
~ Aishwarya R. Dhanush
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
~ Fred W. Friendly