Quotes About Journalism

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Maggie Haberman

Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance. Suppose that, every morning, when we tore the wrapper off our paper with fevered hands, a transmutation were to take place, and we were to find inside it—oh! I don't know; shall we say Pascal's Pensées?

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day,

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

the entire Vietnam peace movement had been KGB funded, as were many journalism departments.

sounded pretty good." The newspaper extra came out in the afternoon, with

A newspaper publisher. In the late 1800s the United States and Spain were warming up for a war over Cuba, and Hearst sent an illustrator to Cuba to make pictures of the event. When the illustrator got there, he sent a telegram to Hearst saying that as far as he could see, there was no war coming and that he was going home. Hearst sent back that he should stay and said, 'You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war.' And he did.

Years working at a newspaper. You learn to write fast and reasonably good and in a manner which does not require substantial editing. Or your editors and copyeditors stab you to death and hang your corpse in the newsroom as a warning to the other staff writers.

Journalists, bless our black little hearts, are petty and vindictive and love to flog our hallowed journalism ethics whenever there's some momentary advantage and/or amusement value in doing so.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.