David Remnick Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

  David Remnick

  Pressure, Journalism, Kind

  "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

• Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

  David Remnick

  One Day, Population, May

• Prediction is a low form of journalism.

  David Remnick

  Journalism, Predictions, Form

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

  David Remnick

  Years, Differences, Journalism

• Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

  David Remnick

  Journalism, Overrated, Subjects

• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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