Journalism Quotes - Page 13

• The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the job description. But you turn around and criticize them, and that's not permitted in the vacuum in which they live. They have free rein over you, because I guess this is how they define their constitutional responsibility. And since they have constitutional recognition, somehow they've all been taught at journalism school that nobody may assail them, that nobody may criticize them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, School, Responsibility

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.

  Kevin Maney

  Fall, Thinking, Careers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.

  Kevin Maney

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think if the content is good and the content is interesting, the at home viewer will watch it for as long as the story is interesting thus the responsibility for making the story interesting falls on the shoulders of the reporter or the producer. Then I'm disappointed that producers have felt that television can only be told in 59 second story bursts because we've become, it's become journalism based on MTV, video electronic editing and cutting.

  Robin Leach

  Fall, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Media, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

  Donald Trump

  Media, America, Political

  Source: time.com

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• You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism. The great editors of the past from the New York Times and others, ladies and gentlemen, are spinning in their grave.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Mean, Past

  Source: time.com

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• Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Thinking, Voice, Needs

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• When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, People, Long

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.

  Catherine Mayer

  Senior, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.

  Ben H. Winters

  America, Renaissance, Tradition

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Professionalism, Kind

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.

  Jon Stewart

  Perspective, People, Interesting

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Critical journalism has gone out of fashion, or rather, it has been bought out. And so, we have much less of it than we did during the Vietnam era, where there was very critical reporting on the Vietnam War and a lot of disagreement among the media. Now you find that the media are much more homogenous, converging because they all must cater to the same community of advertisers. It's sad to see.

  Thomas Pogge

  Fashion, War, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

  Sean Hannity

  Air, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

  Bill Moyers

  Jobs, Impact, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Pages, Digital, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death...the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem.' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.

  Tariq Ali

  Military, Party, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As I'm sure anyone who's born after the '70s' access point is - is '70s films and '70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it's the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs - but it's also the moment that "if it bleeds, it leads" becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you're getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers.

  Rebecca Hall

  People, Atmosphere, Age

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.

  Erin Siegal McIntyre

  Hard Times, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.

  Jimmy Breslin

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Fun, People, Important

  Source: archives.cityandstateny.com

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• People are sometimes having trouble deciphering what is true, and what is journalism with integrity, and what is not. It is incumbent upon us to, if anything, explain our process, and make sure that people understand the lengths that we go to bring objective truth-telling to the air, and to bring a wide variety of perspectives and the choices we make in how we cover the news. I think we could do a little bit of a better job doing that.

  Rachel Martin

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• We do live in a time where there are fake web sites peddling mistruths out or sites that use hyperbole and don't put things in context. There's a range of ways that real journalism has been mashed up with things that aren't journalism... like opinion or that's sensationalistic in some ways. It is really noisy out there. You have to think of ways to cut though the noise.

  Rachel Martin

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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