Journalism Quotes
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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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.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.
