Journalism Quotes - Page 2

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

The first rough draft of history.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

Journalism is organized gossip.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.

Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

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

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.