One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
David Simon

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
Ken Auletta

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
Ted Allen

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
Kazuo Ishiguro

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
John Sladek

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.
Robert Scheer

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
Brit Hume

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Tom Brokaw

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
John Pomfret

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Michael Pollan

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
Chuck Klosterman

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

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
Michael Pollan

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
Geraldo Rivera

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
Juan Williams

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde