Journalistic Quotes

• Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Echoes, Faults, Triumph

  "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.

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• The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?

  Robert Lipsyte

  Team, Cutting, Player

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Reading

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Together, Stories, Gathering

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

  Michael Kinsley

  Lying, Complicated, Bigs

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• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  Alan Brien

  New York, Food, Cities

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• Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

  Bernard Goldberg

  New York, Narcissism, Kind

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

  James Frey

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Passion, Married

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• I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Print, Coexist

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• Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

  Janet Malcolm

  Way, Fidelity, Characteristics

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.146, Granta Books

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• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Writing, Watches, Fiction

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• Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

  William Safire

  Taken, Jargon, Columnists

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Fiction, Research

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• I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites.

  Suzy Menkes

  Real, Writing, Commitment

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• I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

  Lee Strobel

  Thinking, Healthy, Technique

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• The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Discovery, Missing, Usual

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• Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

  Bill Keller

  Interesting, Tools, Use

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• I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Long, Swamps

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution is, does it care whether it makes mistakes or not? And does it correct them?

  David Frum

  Mistake, Differences, Media

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the new digital media operations would pick up that slack, and a lot of them are trying and they're doing creative things. But none of them can scale appropriately to have enough journalistic firepower as well.

  Edward Greenspon

  Media, Creative, Hopeful

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Views, Film

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

  Julian Assange

  Administration, Source, Espionage

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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