Journalism Quotes - Page 39

• You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

  Peaches Geldof

  Watches, Television, Outspoken

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2009.

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• I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Ideas, News Stories

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• I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

  Will Rogers

  Newspapers, Newspapers Journalism

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• You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

  Julian Assange

  Data, Paper, Physics

  "‘A real free press for the first time in history’: WikiLeaks editor speaks out in London" by Joel Gunter, blogs.journalism.co.uk. July 12, 2010.

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• It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Media, May

  "The Whistleblower - Live Online Chat". Interview with Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. May 16, 2010.

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• Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

  Sherwood Anderson

  Art, Mean, Reality

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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• It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

  Tom Wicker

  May, Information, Never Quit

  "IN THE NATION; Lesson of Lattimore" by Tom Wicker, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 1989.

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• I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.

  Steve Blank

  Years, Ideas, Three

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.

  Amy Hempel

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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• I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

  Neal Ascherson

  Writing, Littles, Way

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• Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

  Jonathan Alter

  Reality, Compromise, Problem

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• The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

  Jonathan Alter

  Ideas, Problem, Models

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• The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

  Derek Tangye

  Art, News, Victim

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

  Philippe Kahn

  Phones, Roots, Cameras

  NPR Interview, January 2007.

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• I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Gentleman, Occupation

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• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  Kurt Loder

  Rocks, High Standards, Research

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• David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Powerful, Real, Self

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Basketball, Bad Day, Reason

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.

  Mort Crim

  Growing Up, People, Giving

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Pages Turning, Stories, Thrillers

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Thinking, Cnn, Needs

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth

  T. D. Allman

  Hands, Jason, News

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• Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

  Daniel Schorr

  Military, Agency, Government

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