Quotes About Journalism

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

News is the first rough draft of history.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

in tonight, do a special bulletin, get herself a nice scoop on the competition. "Yeah, yeah," she called at the sound of the buzzer. "Just hang on." She went to the door, looked through the security peep, saw a bit of profile and a big winter hat

The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.

The Clinton era was a turning point in the history of journalism.

The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

Back in East Texas, all three networks have stations in my hometown of Tyler, and for a town that small, 85,000, to have all three networks, they all have their own news programs, six and 10, and they're always looking for news. Back when I was a judge, they were constantly coming to the courthouse and asking for comments.