Quotes About Journalism

I had to remind myself that it's good for journalists to feel demeaned. It means we're onto a story.

Oh, Ronson's all right," Alex told him. "I'm sure he's planning some form of sophisticated hit piece, but I don't care. It's always artfully done so it goes back and forth, you know." "Why is he wearing a snow jacket in 90-degree heat?" Stone muttered to Alex.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

cut back on my own work, passing up an opportunity to follow the Dukakis campaign for Rolling Stone, and I was losing friends the way addicts do, by canceling dates at the last minute.

The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism major, I guessed.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

El periodismo sólo tiene una manera de horadar la realidad, y es la manera que el mar ocupa con la roca: con el tiempo y el empuje constante de olas que a veces son suaves y a veces poderosas.

Now, as we all know, a group of dolphins is called a pod, a group of crows is called a murder, and so on. Henceforth, I'd like all groups of people who call themselves reporters but are actually only bloggers writing listicles to be known as a scumbag.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Why let the facts get in the way of a good story? Especially when it's got a sexy headline.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

All the news that's fit to print.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.