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Journalism Quotes

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

– Drew Curtis

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.

– Phil Klay

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

– Marguerite Duras

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

– Eric Darnell

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there’s lots of layers to what I do. It’s just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they’d hear some interesting stuff.

– Paul Weller

I don’t think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there’s a hunger out there for – whether it’s on the left or right – a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

– David Talbot

In the ’50s and ’60s, journalism wasn’t a profession. It wasn’t something you went to college for – it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

– Matt Taibbi

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

– Dick Schaap

I’m saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

– Daniel Okrent

I’d gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn’t really compatible with rearing an infant. I’d been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn’t really see being an editor in an office.

– Geraldine Brooks

I don’t think there’s any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

– Greg Kinnear

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help – no matter how little – to make people aware of the human condition.

– Eve Arnold

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

– David Frum

I believe that ‘advocacy journalism’ is not an oxymoron. If that means that I’m going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

– Chris Cuomo

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

– Pete Hamill

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.

– Pete Hamill

I feel very blessed to have four brothers. My brothers always say, ‘Oh, you know, we prepared you for the world of journalism. We prepared you for Arnold. We prepared you for everything.’ And in a way they’re right. Because you know, they take no prisoners. They were very tough.

– Maria Shriver

I’m really interested in fashion journalism.

– Mark Indelicato

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

– Nicholas Kristof

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why – but we really need to land on that why. That’s what I’ve been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

– Mara Brock Akil

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn’t really matter. I’m just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

– Mark Thomas

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

– Matt Ridley

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

– Michael Hastings

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don’t get cut off.

– Pete Hamill

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old – the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

– Jason Alexander

I’m an expert on the NewsHour and it isn’t how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

– Jim Lehrer

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

– Jim Walton

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

– Margaret Atwood

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

– Leslie Cockburn

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