Julian Assange Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

  Julian Assange

  Powerful, Taken, Believe

  "Julian Assange: The man who played with fire". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. February 6, 2011.

• If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

  Julian Assange

  Media, Journalism, Controversial

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

  Julian Assange

  Long, Want, Facts

• In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

  Julian Assange

  Pride, Intelligence Services, Gentleman

  "We Are Drowning in Material". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. July 20, 2015.

• I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Dna, Data, Ideas

  "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

• Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Mean Girls, Real, United States

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

• It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Media, May

  "The Whistleblower - Live Online Chat". Interview with Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. May 16, 2010.

• I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

  Julian Assange

  Skills, Journalism, Language

  "Julian Assange: my life in the embassy". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 14, 2013.

• Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

  Julian Assange

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.120, Canongate Books

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

  Julian Assange

  Data, Paper, Journalism

  "‘A real free press for the first time in history’: WikiLeaks editor speaks out in London" by Joel Gunter, blogs.journalism.co.uk. July 12, 2010.

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