Journalism Quotes - Page 9

• It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

  Jonathan Alter

  Powerful, Thinking, Littles

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• the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Media, Public Opinion, Censorship

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• The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

  Michael Pollan

  Leader, Agendas, Way

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• We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

  Jon Stewart

  Opportunity, Fake, Ethics

  "Jon Stewart Roasts Real News". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. October 21, 2004.

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• The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Firsts, Folklore, Remove

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• They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Father, Years, Trying

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• The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

  Alastair Campbell

  Political, Junk, Stories

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

  Laurence Shames

  Pieces, Wanted, Written

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

  Frank Caliendo

  Ideas, Tvs, Default

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• I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

  Raymond Depardon

  Ideas, Belief, Witness

  "Artforum International" Interview with Miriam Rosen, February 2001.

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• As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Order, People, Creative

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Team, Technology

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

  Anne Robinson

  Jobs, Careers, Television

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

  Anne Robinson

  Taken, Home, Risk

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

  David Simon

  People, Attention, Fiction

  Source: progressive.org

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• A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

  David Simon

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

  Source: progressive.org

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• The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.

  David Simon

  People, Water, Might

  Source: progressive.org

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• Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Essence, Ideas, Able

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• Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

  Terry Pratchett

  Who I Am, Library, Made

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• I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

  Shane Smith

  Thinking, Age, Looks

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• Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

  Dick Cavett

  Doe, Stopping, Let Me

  Interview with Jimmy Fallon, nymag.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

  Ward Churchill

  Add, Facts, Fit

  Ward Churchill (1995). “Since predator came: notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation”, Artemis Communications Ltd

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