Quotes About Journalism

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

I realize, of course, that selling newspapers is a business, and that gathering news and presenting it truthfully must be a difficult and competitive task. However, in a story of a highly controversial nature, some newsmen are prone to alter facts and present them in an exciting, provocative way to a panting public, without always following the unvarnished truth.

Like Janus, the press has presented two faces: one detrimental and one advantageous.

The New York Enquirer, a journalistic monstrosity that specializes in epic squalor. Incredibly, this monument to obscenity continues to appear on newsstands week after week.

I meant no offense, but sometimes being a reporter and being offensive can't be pulled apart, no matter how politely you phrase the question.

The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July

he always stressed that 'one could go down from floor to floor far below street level and find … yellow warrens'. A literally underground culture, already a journalistic cliché.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

The characters and action in this story are purely fictitious. Should the description of certain journalistic practices result in a resemblance to the practices of Bild-Zeitung, such resemblance is neither intentional, nor fortuitous, but unavoidable.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

Early on in Carter's presidential bid, I tried to cover a Bible study class that he taught in Plains, Georgia. All of the male reporters were allowed in, but when I tried to enter, a man standing at the door blocked my way and told me ladies were not allowed in. 'I'm no lady, I'm a reporter,' I told him, and he stepped aside for me.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising — only these stand a chance.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

We didn't write it at the time. We took notes, as journalists did in those days, by committing quotes to memory, then making our excuses and heading for the bathroom, where we'd scribble into our notebooks before the booze set in.

Why did you become a journalist?" "Better than working for a living.

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I love the energy and urgency of working in news.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.