Quotes About Journalism

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

There are a lot of opportunities in journalism that are like that, where if you have good ideas and really care about something, and you persist, you can get them. Show up in person. Write that extra email. It goes much farther than people realize.

Le journalisme doit remplir deux fonctions : organiser l'espace public mais aussi produire des révélations. Révéler d'abord au sens de tendre un miroir à la société, pour qu'elle prenne conscience de ce qu'elle est véritablement.

One of my many weaknesses as a journalist is that I can't ask perfect strangers about the masturbation habits of their ex-spouses, just me being a stuffed shirt again.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

The moment Sr journalist who live interviewed P Bhosan said he can not be bought by millions and billions of money, his body language and tone indicated that he has already been purchased and this interview is scripted only to further misguide people and make them believe that there is Covid

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That's the historic distinction in publishing, mass from class, the vulgar from the refined, tabloid from broadsheet, the penny press from papers costing a nickel.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.

There is a dumbing down of the news. Newspapers today seem more like tabloids. I have to wade through seven newspapers before I can find a couple of paragraphs that are serious news. What a pity!

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.