Quotes About Journalism

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

Two books under my belt, some controversial journalism, a reputation for contentious provocative attention-seizing writing. I had something of a name. If feminism had been around then I'd have taken it up, I suppose; it would have needed me. As it was, I never felt its absence; being a woman seemed to me a valuable extra asset.

The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Banks scanned the Yorkshire Post and The Independent reports to see if either newspaper knew more than the police. Sometimes they did, and it could be damned embarrassing all round.

The News of the World no longer exists. How nice to realise that even the most offensive things will eventually require a footnote to explain what they were.

La presse française attisait la colère des colons, surtout Le Monde, L'Express (un hebdomadaire pro-Mendès), le cryptocommuniste France Observateur, Témoignage chrétien (un hebdomadaire aux fortes tendances chrétiennes progressistes, proche des communistes), et même France-Soir. Ces journaux choisissaient de fermer les yeux sur les mauvais côtés du FLN, ils

Journalism is just the facts." He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. "But which facts?" Arthur asked him. "Which facts do we print, Ishmael?

I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that.

It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before.

Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

I am a news junkie and I can't remember a time when I haven't read a paper or even when I am abroad, watched the news on a TV or your phone.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

My job is to be accurate and clear.

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.