Journalism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
-- Abe Fortas -
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.
-- Alec Soth -
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
-- Amira Hass -
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
-- Andrew Marr -
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
-- Andrew Marr -
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
-- Andrew Vachss -
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
-- Andrew Vachss -
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
-- Andy Grove -
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
-- Anthony Sampson -
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
-- Anthony Shadid -
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
-- Anthony Shadid -
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
-- Ben Bradlee -
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
-- Bill Keller -
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
-- Bill Moyers -
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
-- Bill Moyers -
I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
-- Bob Schieffer -
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
-- Bob Woodward -
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
-- Brit Hume -
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
-- Brit Hume -
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.
-- Carl Bernstein -
I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.
-- Cecily Strong -
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
-- Charles Kuralt -
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.
-- Charlie LeDuff -
I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
-- Chris Cuomo -
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
-- Chris Hayes -
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
-- Chris Hughes -
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
-- Chris Jericho -
And I really believe good journalism is good business.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
-- Christopher Lasch -
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
-- Chuck Todd -
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
-- Clay Shirky -
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
-- Dan Rather -
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
-- Dan Rather -
If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.
-- Dan Rather -
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
-- Daniel Okrent -
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
-- David Brock -
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
-- David Frum -
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
-- David Remnick -
Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
-- David Remnick -
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
-- David Remnick -
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
-- David Strathairn -
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
-- David Talbot -
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.
-- David Talbot -
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
-- David Talbot -
The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.
-- Derek Tangye -
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
-- Diane Lane -
Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.
-- Dino Buzzati -
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
-- Donald Davis -
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
-- Erica Jong -
I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
-- Eve Arnold -
We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.
-- Ezra Klein -
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.
-- Florence King -
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
-- Francine Prose -
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
-- Frank Miller -
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
-- Fred W. Friendly -
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
-- Gary Coleman -
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
-- Gay Talese -
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey Ward -
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell -
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
-- George William Curtis -
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
-- Geraldo Rivera -
No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
-- Greg Egan -
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
-- Hank Phillippi Ryan -
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
-- Harold Evans -
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
-- Hedrick Smith -
I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history
-- Helen Thomas -
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault
-- Henry Anatole Grunwald -
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
-- Henry R. Luce -
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
-- Henry R. Luce -
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
-- Horace Greeley -
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
-- Howard Kurtz
