Journalism Quotes - Page 35

• I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

  Will McDonough

  Pregnancy, Thinking, United States

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• News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

  Gene Fowler

  Eagles, Wings, Bags

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• I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

  Jayson Blair

  People, Brilliant, Fooled

  Jayson Blair (2004). “Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times”, New Millenium

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• Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  Larry King

  Looks, Enhancement, Gullible

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• Journalism is the first draft of history

  Phil Graham

  Firsts

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Kind

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• Profiles aren't journalism.

  Fred Wilson

  Profile

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• All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Imagination, Novelists

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• I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

  Chris Carter

  Children, Hero, Men

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• My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

  Graham Greene

  Saws, Titles, Action

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, Cynical, News

  "State of Play - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

  Vivian Schiller

  Media, Printing, Social

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• I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Care, Welcome

  "'This Town' Author Mark Leibovich: 'I Violated An Unspoken Rule...' (VIDEO)". Interview with Mike Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Ignorance, Modern Journalism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1005, Wordsworth Editions

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• What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

  Paul Fussell

  Want, Publicity, Publish

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Thinking, Yellow, Tvs

  "The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media".

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• Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Smart, Player

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• The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

  Scott Pelley

  Running, Country, Strong

  Source: deadline.com

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• [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

  Katie Couric

  Differences, Making A Difference, Crafts

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• I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.

  Maria Shriver

  Men, Males, World

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• My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

  Rebecca Mead

  Jobs, Important, Degrees

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Editors, Information Flow

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, Views, Waiting

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

  Phillip Knightley

  Thinking, Analysis, Serious

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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