Quotes About Journalism

nationwide, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also served as visiting lecturer in literature at Claremont McKenna College for six years. A native of Evanston, Illinois, Masello

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins.

We piled into the back of his big red Sun-Times truck: Robertson, McHugh, a bagpipe player, assorted other regulars, and Good Sydney Harris. Good Sydney Harris was a Spanish Civil War veteran, not to be confused with the Bad Sydney Harris, the Daily News columnist. Good Sydney had fallen into conversation with a dominatrix named Jake, who joined us.

Amber has never been noted for its squeamishness," she said. "You have been exposed to too much American journalism.

called the guy at the LA Times.

Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be exceedingly careful not to try a man in the newspapers and magazines before he comes to court. In such cases when a newspaper becomes an accuser or prejudger, turning public sentiment, the paper can be named as a defendant to the action. It keeps journalism honest.

I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker." "There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum. "Really? What do you call them?" "Alcoholics.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers. As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, Petra said.

You never forgot those old movies, Qwill. You still want reporters to type with their hats on and poke the keys with two fingers.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

By 2018 the BBC seemed to have decided that items of specifically gay news needed to be not just reported but headlined as major news.

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade.

Objectivity is a false god, and the worship of this idol is particularly pernicious in disciplines like journalism and history. It is not possible to be objective----although of course it is possible to be honest. By pretending to attain to objectivity, a writer's fundamental faith commitments are not eliminated, but rather submerged----and they then come out in interesting and intellectually dishonest ways.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.