Quotes About Journalism

Education was central to reporting.

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Up to then there had been something of a gentleman's agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the Kennedy Administration was one of excellence, that it was for good things and against bad things, and that when it did lesser things it was only in self-defense, and in order that it might do other good things.

It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.