Journalism Quotes - Page 27

• Journalism combines adventure with culture.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Adventure, Culture

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• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Art, People

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• Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Russia, Gathering, News

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• There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Directors, Essentials

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mirrors, Media, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

  Theodore Tilton

  Book, Lectures, Sermons

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• Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• [On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

  Princess Diana

  Children, Publicity, Patient

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, Substance

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• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  Ethel Waters

  Jobs, Judging, Outsiders

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• writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

  Jill Tweedie

  Writing, Men, Two

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• All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

  Carolyn Hart

  Powerful, Makeup, Stripes

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• Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Sex, Neutrality, Stories

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• I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, Bridges, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

  Patricia Moyes

  Frustrated, Bricks, Journalist

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• journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Order, World, Way

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.137, Penguin

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  Ed Asner

  School, Editors, Careers

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• [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Jobs, Ambition, Kentucky

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• A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

  Hallie Burnett

  Art, Memories, Events

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• I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

  Cecily Strong

  Appearance, Swear

  "Cecily Strong Reminds Reporters: Covering Hillary Clinton’s Appearance Isn’t Journalism" by Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2015.

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• These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.

  Eddie Vedder

  Summer, Song, People

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• To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Opposites, Acting, Realization

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• A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dark, Keys, Light

  "Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised - thankfully" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2013.

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