Quotes About Journalism

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

The press lives on disaster.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.