Quotes About Journalism

I suppose beat reporters who cover people like Babbitt and Gephardt are reluctant to offend because they may need the powerful people's cooperation tomorrow. I didn't worry about cooperation tomorrow, so I kept offending people today.

My friend Oz Katerji once saw a great line of graffiti in Beirut that can work for every war reporter in every war: 'I don't believe in anything. I am just here for the violence.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

May fiddled with her phone, reminding herself she was good at this and in control and that getting the story was more important than feminist principles – or no, not even that, it was that feminist principles demanded she tell the truth about this heinous act of violence against a woman and the blokey, misogynist community in which it happened, and if that required flirting with one or more of said blokey, misogynist community members then that was for the greater good.

In history this is exactly the same as in the daily newspaper. The normal does not make news.

On August 27 Richard Harding Davis, star of the American correspondents who were then in Belgium, made his way to Louvain by troop train. He was kept locked in the railroad car by the Germans, but the fire had by then reached the Boulevard Tirlemont facing the railroad station and he could see "the steady straight columns of flames" rising from the rows of houses.

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

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

Producers of TV newsmagazines routinely let emotional accounts trump objective information.

Covering the NBA is about covering people. I think that's why it's sometimes compared to a reality show - because you actually get the chance to know the characters, not just the teams.

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.