Quotes About Journalism

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.

Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could put Jesus' face on the cover that it would do really well on the newsstands. So every year, they would put Jesus' face on the newsstand. There was a formula there.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

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.

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

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

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

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.