Quotes About Journalism

Before you deride the "mainstream media," note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy, and actual journalism that is edgy and difficult.

If you retweet only the work of humans who have followed journalistic protocols, you are less likely to debase your brain interacting with bots and trolls.

For the reporters, the heroes of our time

Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.

Quando i giornali dipendono dalla pubblicità, e la pubblicità è in mano a chi ha il potere politico, come puoi essere libero? Quando i giornali sono posseduti dalle grandi aziende contro le quali non potrai mai scrivere e che hanno i loro interessi politici, come fai a fare del vero giornalismo?

Lubi? pisa? listy. Zawsze my?la?em, ?e gdybym urodzi? si? w bogatej rodzinie i trzysta lat temu tam, gdzie urodzi?em si? w biedzie, we Florencji, chcia?bym tylko podró?owa? po ca?ym ?wiecie, ?eby pisa? listy. Dziennikarstwo do pewnego stopnia pozwoli?ó mi robi? co? podobnego, ale by?em ograniczony i?o?ci? miejsca, terminami, wymogami j?zyka. Teraz w ko?cu mog? po prostu pisa? listy.

E' un aspetto, questo, dello stano mestiere del cronista che non cessa di affascinarmi e, al tempo stesso, di inquietarmi: i fatti non registrati non esistono.

It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

I am not a partisan newsman. I am a reporter who covers politics and government, and I am nonpartisan.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community