Quotes About Journalism

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The first rough draft of history.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Journalism is the first draft of history

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.