Quotes About Journalism

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

She was Channel Ten's new replacement for the obnoxious Kristin Keller, a journalist who had never let the facts interfere with her reporting or derail her career trajectory.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that if they must lie they do so about their own countries, but not about El Salvador ." (Notice displayed on the wall of the Ministry of Defence press office, El Salvador, 1983.)

I'm the anchor on the 5 and 11 o'clock news on channel—" "I don't care if you're the anchor on a boat. You

Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune, the London Times, the New-York Herald, and El Clarion, a

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

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A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

Quite simply, I love newspapers and the men and women who make them. Newspapers have given me a full, rich life. They have provided me with a ringside seat at some of the most extraordinary events in my time on the planet. They have been my university. They have helped feed, house and educate my children. I want them to go on and on and on.

The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.

It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

To Trump, talking with Murdoch was more important than just about anything. No one played a more central role in Trump's media world than the Australian-born impresario of conservative journalism who owned Fox News, Fox Business, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other

Journalism, it turns out, is just so much hot air, hot type rather, that has an extraordinary importance at the moment but leaves nothing behind. It is the very opposite of the true poetic word that endures—what Lucien originally aspired to but betrayed

Journalists are poorly paid and often alarmingly unconcerned about sources or facts, whilst many articles are an infuriating mixture of fact and comment.

Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.

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