Journalism Quotes - Page 17

• Serious journalism need not be solemn.

  Russell Baker

  Serious, Needs, Solemn

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• There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, People, Literature

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• Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

  Ray Bradbury

  Earth

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• Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Dumb, Election

  "THE 43rd PRESIDENT; Excerpts From News Conference in Which Bush Named Treasury Secretary". George W. Bush's remarks at the news conference in Austin, Texas, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2000.

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• I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

  Jenna Bush

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Girl Crush Alert: How Sophia Bush Is Using Her Voice to Make a Difference" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  Phil Collins

  Nice, Kids, Tired

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• I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

  Maureen Dowd

  Natural, Form, Columns

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• The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Rights, Ideas

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

  Thomas Frank

  Special, Stories, Persecution

  "Obama Is Right About Fox News" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

  Thomas Frank

  Flower, Political, Style

  "Joe Klein's Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, observer.com. May 1, 2006.

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• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Scary

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• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Novelists

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  Patricia Heaton

  Ohio State, States, Theater

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• I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

  Hugh Hefner

  Strong, Thinking, Media

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• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Matter, Meat, Transformation

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

  Don Hewitt

  Dirty, Naughty, Long

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• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Succeed, Ends

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• Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Travel, Book

  "Living memories". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

  Charles Kuralt

  Bigs, Competitiveness

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• I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

  Charles Kuralt

  Philosophy, People, Important

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• I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Good Luck, Years

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• In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

  Tony Kushner

  Technology, Film And Television, Way

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• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Recipes, Dull

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

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