Quotes About Journalism

The paper's self-confessed love affair is with the advertiser and its flourishing bottomline gives it the power to desecrate editorial space and express the confident view that all other media houses will soon follow its example.

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

Eu esperava por grandes painéis de carvalho, um vidro na porta — com Chefe "escrito" —, para que os focas pudessem nos ver discutindo a liberdade de imprensa. O escritório de Curry é sem graça e institucional, como o resto do prédio. Você poderia debater jornalismo ou fazer um papanicolau. Ninguém ligaria.

Não sou do tipo de repórter que se delicia ao entrar na intimidade das pessoas. Provavelmente é por isso que sou uma jornalista de segunda. Uma delas, pelo menos.

It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist. One of them, at least.

Curry gosta de dizer que repórteres são como vampiros. Não podem entrar em sua casa sem seu convite, mas, uma vez do lado de dentro, você não consegue expulsá-los até que tenham sugado todo o seu sangue.

None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater.

Journalism and popular fiction have merged, and the graphic and the plausible have become an end in themselves. The contemporary public plainly prefers mirrors to windows.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.

I'm not involved, not involved, I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.

I was a correspondent: I thought in headlines.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

The danger is real, Caitlin." "Give me a break. Nobody killed Woodward and Bernstein." "They weren't working in Mississippi.

From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

Whether it's Al Michaels, when the earthquake happened in San Francisco and his ability to handle it like Walter Cronkite would have handled it, or Bob Costas with his overview of what's happening with worldly events at the Olympics and the perspective that he has there, you know these guys are so well read.

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.