Journalism Quotes - Page 7

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.

A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.