Quotes About Journalism

Don't write," he said, seeing me scribbling into my notebook, taking me for a journalist. "Periodista?" Diego asked. "Pensionado," I said. Retiree.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Headline writing is an art form.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

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.

for there was no local news, there were no journalists—all of that wiped out by social media, the advertising apocalypse and, more than anything else, the war on subjectivity—