Journalism Quotes - Page 4

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material – not for telling the truth.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

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

Serious journalism need not be solemn.