Quotes About Journalism

For me, journalism means being the first witness to tell the truth to the public. Going beyond your own opinions.

Most of our journalists today have nothing great to report except poking their noses into other people's family affairs.

When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

pseudo-event," by which he means an event specifically staged to be reported—

Neil Sheehan

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

When a newspaper moves online, the bundle falls apart.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Almost every word in the paper followed the conservative line, and you wouldn't have been surprised to read in the horoscope that 'A full moon in July will mean that Geminis will be mugged by the feral children of a heroin-addled single mother.

After Rushdie, the fear of a knife in the ribs or a bomb at the office meant that liberals who stuck by liberalism were in the wrong. They knew the consequences now. If someone killed them, they were guilty of provoking their own murder. In the eyes of most politicians and most of the journalists, broadcasters, academics and intellectuals whose livelihoods depended on the freedom to debate and criticise, the targets of religious violence had no one to blame but themselves.

It is not easy to discern whether contemporary journalism is a cynical way to get rich by corrupting man or a "cultural" apostolate carried out by hopelessly uncivilized minds.

Las noticias son el substituto de las verdades.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.

Lazareff believed that "a journalists first duty is to be read," but Camus felt it was to tell the truth as much as possible, with as much style as possible. Camus saw "Lazareffism" as unacceptable journalism, a mixture of political submissiveness, raw crime, and nonsense. Pia and Camus hated the spineless large-circulation press, which followed orders and catered to its readers' lower instincts.

Oriana Fallaci

Free and independent media underpin any vibrant democracy.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.