Quotes About Journalism

She wrote, "I can never thank you enough, Mrs. Robertson, for being so kind and understanding with the whole of Fleet Street following me!!

A journalist who assumes that Trump's intention is unknowable, that repeated false statements—when the truth is indeed knowable—do not, factually, constitute lying, is abdicating the responsibility to tell the story, to provide the context of what happened a year ago, yesterday, or even in parallel with the lying. The journalist becomes complicit in creating the bizarre sense of ahistoricism of the Trump era, which seems to exist only, ever, in the current moment.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The general policy of the press had been stated by a famous editor five years ago. "There are no objective facts," he had said. "Every report on facts is only somebody's opinion. It is, therefore, useless to write about facts." A

It was not so much, then, that people like the rapper Danis Cuspert and Dunya were brainwashed into an ideology of radicalism; they simply lacked the intellectual and psychological coping skills to channel their newly found beliefs into more productive and legal means: activism, charity work, human rights law, citizen journalism.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Well then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in real life, the number of actual stories - those with beginnings, middles, and ends - are slim and none. But if you can give your readers just one unknown thing (two at the very outside) and then kick in what Dave Bowie there calls a musta-been, your reader will tell himself a story.

bear that BBC News or CNN International any longer. They show the same stories over and over.

My partner has no use for what passes as journalism these days, particularly on the tube. According to Harry, they spend too much time in deep admiration for politicians who show particular skill in lying, so much so that they have now institutionalized the destruction of public ethics by elevating deceit to a statecraft called "spin." It is no longer the lie that matters but the qualitative fashion in which it is told. We

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

Los medios de comunicación necesitan a los expertos tanto como los expertos a los medios. Todos los días hay páginas de periódicos e informativos de televisión que llenar, y un experto que aporte una noticia discordante siempre es bienvenido. Juntos, periodistas y expertos son los artífices de gran parte de la sabiduría conven-cional.

Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.

We never see a journalist saying to the camera, "I'm reporting live from a country where a war has not broken out"—or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up. As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

I believe that journalists have not given enough thought to the way that media coverage can activate our cognitive biases and distort our understanding.

Seeing how journalistic habits and cognitive biases bring out the worst in each other, how can we soundly appraise the state of the world? The answer is to count. How many people are victims of violence as a proportion of the number of people alive? How many are sick, how many starving, how many poor, how many oppressed, how many illiterate, how many unhappy? And are those numbers going up or down? A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word no.

For decades, journalism's steady focus on problems and seemingly incurable pathologies was preparing the soil that allowed Trump's seeds of discontent and despair to take root. . .

Changes that take place on the scale of journalism will always show ups and downs. Solutions create new problems, which take time to solve in their term. But when we stand back from these blips and setbacks, we see that the indicators of human progress are cumulative: none is cyclical, with gains reliably cancelled by losses.

Trump was the beneficiary of a belief—near universal in American journalism—that "serious news" can essentially be defined as "what's going wrong." . . . For decades, journalism's steady focus on problems and seemingly incurable pathologies was preparing the soil that allowed Trump's seeds of discontent and despair to take root. . . .

changes that take place on the time scale of journalism will always show ups and downs.

Because the cultures of politics and journalism are largely innocent of the scientific mindset, questions with massive consequences for life and death are answered by methods that we know lead to error, such as anecdotes, headlines, rhetoric, and what engineers call HiPPO (highest-paid person's opinion).

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

un periodista eficaz —digamos Umbral— no alcanza la perfección de su arte con sólo ser informativo, concienzudo, verdadero, riguroso: tiene que tener además un estilo inconfundible.