Journalism Quotes - Page 40

• In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

  Edward P. Jones

  Fiction, Facts, Steps

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• The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Chairs, Editorials, Cushions

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers”, p.76

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• Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

  Bill Cosby

  Media, Black, Mind

  "Upbeat Cosby expects ‘black media’ to stay neutral". Phone conversation, pagesix.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

  David Brinkley

  Political, Politics, Politician

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• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Joy, Forever, Enough

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Sometimes, Live By, Journalist

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trust, Betrayal, Loneliness

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

  Robertson Davies

  Autumn, Editors, Fudge

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• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Jobs, Real

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Blessing, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.191

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• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

  James Boswell

  Trying, Let Me

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Media, Play

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• Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

  Chris Hughes

  Long, Long Time, Has Beens

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• I expected to go into journalism or law.

  Christie Hefner

  Law, Expected

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Rachel Johnson

  Writing, Two, Done

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

  Bill Keller

  Children, Would Be, Moments

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• One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

  Bill Keller

  Discipline, Challenges, Important

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• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  Michael Kinsley

  Thinking, People, Events

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• I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

  Laurie Notaro

  Writing, Arizona, States

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• You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

  Miranda Otto

  Stars, Tabloids, Lines

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• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Funny, Sports, Thoughtful

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• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Bars, Use

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• Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

  Scott Pelley

  Answers, Care, Way

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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