Quotes About Journalism

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

In The Price of Admission, journalist Daniel Golden documents the ways in which elite schools manage to find room for the children of alums, big donors, celebrities, athletes, the elite college's own faculty, and wealthy parents whose estates might eventually make their heirs into big donors.20

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

The primary office of a newspaper is the gathering of news… comment is free, but facts are sacred.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

TV news is quite probably the most superficial form of journalism ever invented. Hunter Thompson characterized it fifty years ago as a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men go to die.

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine.

Kristen Murphy

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.