Journalism Quotes

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
Thomas Frank

Special, Place, Stories

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

Bad, Mean, Word

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
Nate Silver

Work, Truth, Personal

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Rebecca West

Challenge, Space, Ability

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker

Away, Theory, Street

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Russell Baker

Politics, Business, Except

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Russell Baker

Life, Talk, American

Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Russell Baker

Serious, Solemn

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Thomas Frank

Political, Flower, American

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.
Thomas Frank

Problem, Off, Known

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
Gus Van Sant

Different, Find, Become

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
Bob Woodward

Dilemma, Central

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
Dan Rather

Doubt, Getting, Started

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
Dan Rather

Love, Politics, Important

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
Dan Rather

Good, Last, Ratings

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis

Become, Laziness, Chief

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly

Art, Writing, Once

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner

Life, Education, Art

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
Russell Baker

Business, Finance, Writing

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
Eliot Spitzer

Government, Matter, Tried

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.
J. C. Watts

Love, Sports, Arena

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
Walter Isaacson

Money, End, Corrupt

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
Dave Eggers

Experience, College, Took

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann

Life, Long, Between

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather

Best, Art, Science

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
Julian Assange

Good, Powerful, Bad

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

Greatest, Speak, While

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
Jim Lehrer

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
Bob Schieffer

Job, Newsmakers

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