Journalism Quotes - Page 23

• A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Lying, Euphemism, Composites

  "The Interplay of Influence: Mass Media and Their Publics in News, Advertising, Politics (Wadsworth series in mass communication)". Book by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and‎ Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, 1982.

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• We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

  Dan Gillmor

  Moving, Government, Media

  "Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly". www.niemanlab.org. December 20, 2011.

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• Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Thinking, Religion, Contradictory

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Comeback, Insult

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• PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

  Ronn Torossian

  Interesting, Psychology, Landscape

  Ronn Torossian (2013). “For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations”, p.15, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• 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.

  Walter Isaacson

  Shoes, Niche, Leather

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

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• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

  Walter Isaacson

  Air, Thumbs, Pressure

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

  Dino Buzzati

  Fantasy, Should

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• The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

  David Simon

  Games, Feet, Leader

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

  Oswald Mosley

  Ice Cream, Black, Spirit

  After his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates, 1927.

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• I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

  Kurt Loder

  Years, Europe, Yellow

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• When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

  Seno Gumira Ajidarma

  Literature, Facts, Speak

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• No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

  Greg Egan

  Truth Is

  "Distress". Book by Greg Egan, 1995.

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• In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

  Tina Brown

  Crafts, Legends, Ends

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• The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

  Michael Pollan

  Leader, Bigs, Nobel

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

  Howard Kurtz

  Reason, Seems

  "How Katrina humbled the American news machine" by Jeff Jarvis, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2005.

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• If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

  Bill Kovach

  World, Demand, Way

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• I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

  Maria Shriver

  Believe, Gutters, Politics

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• Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

  Brit Hume

  People, Literature

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• I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

  Bob Schieffer

  Art, Writing, Foundation

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• I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

  Bob Schieffer

  Jobs, Thinking, Literature

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• Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Home, Special, Purpose

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• There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Important, Radio, Influence

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• There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

  Brit Hume

  Attitude, Issues, Flags

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

  David Talbot

  College, Literature, Favorites Things

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