Journalism Quotes - Page 14

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

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

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.

As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.