Quotes About Journalism

In America there is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

what was being called objectivity was really neutrality with journalists holding the victim or the weak to the same level of interrogation to which they held the perpetrator or the powerful. not surprisingly this balancing act this so-called objectivity worked in favor of the powerful.

The transformation of newspapers and news channels into corporations which made them addicts of profit (and therefore rating and online clicks), and that's eventually left less space for boring truths and facts, couldn't have been demonstrated more bluntly. . It was as if Trump were reminding the press of the old journalistic adage: "Follow the money.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

EDNA BUCHANAN

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When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Remember the Maine!

Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.

The working press -- a strange expression that; it calls up a picture of a horde of other pressmen lolling about Hollywood on sumptuous divans, smother by bevies of attendant odalisques, and thinking scornfully of their colleagues of the WORKING press -- the working press took kindly to the reception for the Baker Street Irregulars.

Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned. The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.

that overeager reporters would somehow