Journalism Quotes - Page 13

Profiles aren't journalism.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm doing weird stuff with the structure. I've got images, I've got lyrics, and I've got journalism. I really try to not get stuck in genre expectations.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and also to get into the nitty gritty of drug policy that you don't really see written about anywhere else.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow.

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

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

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.