Journalism Quotes - Page 8

Journalism is the first draft of history

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The real news is bad news.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that are considered legitimate journalism and illegitimate journalism.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.