Journalism Quotes - Page 29

• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Shortage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Missions, Intellect, Presses

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Stories, Retrospect

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• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Crowns, Literature

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• Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Conflict, Used

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  I. King Jordan

  College, Thinking, Issues

  "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Christian, Religious, Blind Spots

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• And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

  Joan Konner

  Organization, Abuse, Roles

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• Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Years, Class, Knowing

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• Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

  Neil Gaiman

  Details, Speech, Patterns

  "Ask the Author Live:Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Community, Understanding, Democracy

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• Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Tasks, Care

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• Do not read the newspapers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Newspapers

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.46, David M Gross

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• As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

  Lionel Barber

  Book, Cubs, Reporters

  Lionel Barber's Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

  Lionel Barber

  Cutting, Effort, Firsts

  "Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: 'News now is not the newspaper'". Interview with Roy Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Wish, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

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• Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Years, Way

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Alive, Moments

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• If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Children, School, Fishing

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• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Walking Sticks, Lynching, Revolution

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• I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Golf, Hair

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