Journalism Quotes - Page 24

• Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Looks, News, Television

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• The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Dirty, Naughty, Secret

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

  Jim C. Walton

  Business, Views, Cnn

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• I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

  Henry R. Luce

  Want, Tradition, Institutions

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• 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

  Art, Aggravation, Hype

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• For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Writing, Years, Joining

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

  Robert Scheer

  Umpires, Pants, Findings

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• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  Pat Oliphant

  Noble, Knows, Carrie

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• 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

  Practice, Asking Questions, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

  Jim Lehrer

  Judgment

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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

  Daniel Okrent

  Wmd, Evil

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

  Jeff Gannon

  Jobs, Political, News

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• Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

  Andrew Vachss

  Change, Democracy, Progressive

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• For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

  Gloria Borger

  News, Belief, Folks

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• I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

  Nick Denton

  Want

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2008.

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• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Web Content, Opinion

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• An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic.

  Istvan Deak

  Book, Writing, German Language

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• I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Degrees, Magazines, Nine

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• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

  David Remnick

  Years, Differences, Scholarship

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• When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

  Tabitha Soren

  Racket, Knows

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• I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

  Jim Lehrer

  Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

  Tom Rachman

  Fighting, Swimming, Pages

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• A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

  John L'Heureux

  Reality, Thinking, Fiction

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