Quotes About Journalism

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

Magazine articles are the new books.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

You are fake news.

H. L. Mencken, a journalist in the 1920s, saw this whipping-up of fear as endemic to politics. "The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, almost all of them imaginary.

One of the CNN guys was literally yelling. "How can you say that? It's too dangerous for us? We still have people in Syria!

The rules were clear then. If you once crossed the line from journalism into partisan politics, you could not return. They were them and we were us.

Es una realidad desafortunada que únicamente dos cosas, el escándalo y la controversia, venden más periódicos y libros que los grandes ejemplos de literatura y educación juntos." (Traducción: Mireia Terés)

breaking news (n) a news story that is unfolding at the moment that reporters are reporting it

Secrecy laws and incomplete information hog-tied journalists who tried to expose offshore wrongdoing. Lawsuits and public ridicule frequently followed publication. A partial picture allowed critics to dismiss findings as anomalies rather than patterns.

No equipment was thought necessary for the lower ranks in journalism, and no equipment was thought adequate for the higher ranks. Journalists, like poets, were born, not made.

written by reporters on the scene?

war correspondent

The advantage of a free press is diminished when anyone can claim to be an objective journalist, then disseminate narratives conjured out of thin air to make others believe rubbish. The tactic is effective because people sitting at home or tapping away in a coffee shop often have no reliable way to determine whether the source of what they are reading is legitimate

The advantage of a free press is diminished when anyone can claim to be an objective journalist, then disseminate narratives conjured out of thin air to make others believe rubbish.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

What makes journalist so fascinating, and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: 'What's he like?

I can't imagine who would be covering a hearing in a forgotten case in East Nowhere, Florida.

She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened.

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine. (on Tom Wolfe)

Ware's—in the Gazette, and I'll continue to do