Linda Ellerbee Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Sports, Accomplishment, News

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

• I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Law, Prejudice, Firsts

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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