Journalism Quotes
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I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.
Mike Cernovich -
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.
Scott Pelley
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After Vietnam and Watergate, and later the advent of twenty-four-hour cable news, journalism became noticeably more subjective and judgmental.18 Coverage was focused more on mediating what public people were saying than simply reporting it.
Bill Kovach -
Journalism is a character defect. I think most non-journalists would agree with this. It is life lived at a safe remove: standing off to one side of the parade as it passes, noting its flaws, offering glib and unworkable suggestions for its improvement. Every journalist must know that this is not, really, how a serious-minded person would choose to spend his days. Serious-minded people do things; a journalist chatters about the things serious-minded people do, and so, not coincidentally, avoids having to do them himself. A significant body of research indicates that non-journalists find us insufferable, perhaps for this reason.
Andrew Ferguson -
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
William Cowper -
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.
Nat Hentoff -
There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
Michael Douglas -
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
Bill Kovach
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Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain't going to make no money in journalism.
Kirby Larson -
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman -
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.
Neil Drumming -
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
Michael Finkel -
Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.
Eva Moskowitz -
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
William Cullen Bryant
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
Judith Butler -
The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
Michael Schudson -
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
Rick Bragg -
In the days when we could take it for granted that journalism mattered, we could only share assumptions about what it was, how it was delivered and funded, but this is not the case any more.
Alan Rusbridger -
I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
Mike Cernovich -
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
Chuck Klosterman
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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.
William Gibson -
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
Monica Hesse -
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Martha Gellhorn -
I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.
Ben Watt