Quotes About Journalism

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

I'm curious when I look across the dial Monday through Friday, you know, where are the other female black anchors?

In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

I 100 percent do not see myself as the new Piers Morgan!

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that "the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.

People who use dirty methods to hurt others... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.