Journalism Quotes - Page 25

• Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

  Stig Dagerman

  Art, Too Late, Masters

  Stig Dagerman (1988). “German autumn”

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.

  Sarah

  Sorry, Communication, Expectations

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• And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents.
  Journalism.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Real, Men, Talent

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.

  Monica Crowley

  Blow, Hitting, Safe

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• For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

  Stockwell Day

  Stories, Canada, Effects

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• Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Nfl, Numbers, Issues

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• Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

  Thomas Frank

  Kings, Wall, Years

  "Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2009.

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• People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

  Mark Thomas

  People, Cards, Matter

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• Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

  Gwen Ifill

  Pbs, Depth, Analysis

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• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

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• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  News, Lost, Awake

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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

  Chris Hayes

  Blood, Lefties, Labor

  "Chris Hayes Says New MSNBC Show Will Continue Labor Coverage In Ed Schultz’s Tradition" by Dave Jamieson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2013.

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• A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.

  Bill Moyers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Play

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Events, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nurse, Mad, Mind

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

  Annie Dillard

  Mixtures, Able, Interpretation

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hatred, Giants, Catapults

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Taste, Moral, Should

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• Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enemy, Haste

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• Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
  [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Editors, Devil, Newspapers

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Estates, Realms, Fourth

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