Quotes About Journalism

Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.

At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?

Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that "he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic." At

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.

I finished high school and studied at the University of Nebraska in the school of journalism, which really turned me onto journalism. I never finished, but the very little that I did learn in two-and-a-half-years prepared me for a career in legitimate journalism, which included WWE, AWA, WCW, and everything in-between.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.