Quotes About Journalism

I'd need to praise each of the columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, who've worked tirelessly to avoid facts that might contradict their narratives.

Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.

Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense—or at least the effort—to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists.

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote.

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

headers from the last few great daily papers

John Ziegler is not a journalist-he is an entertainer. Or maybe it's better to say that he is part of a peculiar, modern, and very popular type of news industry, one that manages to enjoy authority and influence of journalism without the stodgy constraints of fairness, objectivity, and responsibility that make trying to tell the truth such a drag for everyone involved. It is a frightening industry, though not for any of the simple reasons most critics give.

It was either that or a sportswriter where I could document the poetry of athletics much the same as my idol, Jimmy Cannon.

Igual que los burdeles, los periódicos duermen por las mañanas.

The death toll had gotten so bad, Mexico would eventually rank second only to Iraq in the number of killed or kidnapped reporters.

If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful letters to your friends, the most lucid reports to your superiors, you will never produce a poem or a play or a story. You may make a journalist but you will never make an author.

He has the good reporter's gift for being in the right place at the right moment, and the structure and rhythm of his sentences show how well he has mastered his medium. After

Journalism can be expressed in many ways. Broadcasting is not a medium to denigrate anyone. I was part of journalism sometime ago. My purpose of living still remain unchanged -- to stay upright and balanced.

Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It's got to be bulletproof in the sense that it lets the bullet in, and it travels through, and it comes out the other side. I've had everything hurled at me, especially in Australia. Australia is where the tough journalists are.

It is isn't easy to make someone who hasn't experienced it understand what it feels like, this martyrdom of being judged, devalued, disqualified, and misrepresented by journalists writing in haste who are bored by reading and who, for that matter, hardly ever read anything anyway. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

Heywood Broun

The book turned out to be one she'd read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team.

I come across journalists in theatre lobbies; it makes me shudder to see them. Journalism is an inferno, a bottomless pit of iniquity and treachery and lies; no one can traverse it undefiled, unless, like Dante, he is protected by Virgil's sacred laurel.

Le journalisme est un enfer, un abîme d'iniquités, de mensonges, de trahisons, que l'on ne peut traverser et d'où l'on ne peut sortir pur, que protégé comme Dante par le divin laurier de Virgile.

Les jeunes gens, qui ne savaient à quoi employer leurs forces, ne les jetaient pas seulement dans le journalisme, dans les conspirations, dans la littérature et dans l'art, ils les dissipaient dans les plus étranges excès, tant

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

I'd no idea that you'd prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances were terribly high that you'd also be a prat.