Journalism Quotes - Page 9

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Anyone who does investigative journalism is not in it for the money. Investigative journalism by nature is the most work intensive kind of journalism you can take on. That's why you see less and less investigative journalism at newspapers and magazines. No matter what you're paid for it, you put in so many man-hours it's one of the least lucrative aspects of journalism you can take on.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as a personal side, this reminds of Oscar Wilde's insight that criticism is the highest form of autobiography. I think that's exactly what rock journalism has attempted to do, to celebrate its autobiography at my expense.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women?