Quotes About Journalism

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

The haunted type­writer clacked busily away to my left, operated by a journalist who was murdered several years ago, but hadn't let a little thing like being dead interfere with his work.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.