Quotes About Journalism

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

My father was a policeman who fought in World War II. When he talked about 'journalists,' he meant Ernie Pyle. As far as he was concerned, journalists had hair on their chests and wrote about wars.

Il giornalismo è l'arte di arrivare troppo tardi il più in fretta possibile.

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