Journalism Quotes - Page 19

• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Media, Might, Pressure

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• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men, Texas, Police

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• I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Organization, Giving

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• One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• 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

  Jobs, Boys, College

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• I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lonely, Thinking, Kind

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Kind, Consciousness, Print

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• I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Political, Causes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

  Jimmy Wales

  Impact, People, Being Ignored

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Organization, Political

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

  Lil Wayne

  Believe, Inspiration, Media

  "Watch Lil Wayne Bowling With Katie Couric For Grammy Special!" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 02, 2009.

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• The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

  William Allen White

  Truth, Care, Facts

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• The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, Political

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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

  Tom Wolfe

  Forever, Stories, Kind

  "Mummy Wrap" by George Neumayr, "The American Spectator", spectator.org. January 10, 2005.

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• As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

  Regina Brett

  Thinking, People, Hallmark

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• Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Pay, Infinite, Free Music

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• The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giving, Tasks, Needs

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• Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  World, Strange, Misfits

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Years, Two

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.91, Penguin

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• Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Insanity, Essentials

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.73, Bantam

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• American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Achievement, Enormous

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.95, Knopf

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• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  Sarah Vowell

  Spring, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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• The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Levels, Derivatives

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

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• I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Style, Opponents

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.270, Atlantic Books Ltd

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