Quotes About Journalism

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.