Good Journalism Quotes

• And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Believe, Our World, Media

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• Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

  Carl Bernstein

  People, Challenges, Journalism

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• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  Long, News, Unbiased

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

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• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  Arthur Miller

  Inspiration, Talking, Journalism

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

  John Chancellor

  Add, Information, Journalism

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• If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Jail, People

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• If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

  Julian Assange

  Media, Journalism, Controversial

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Assassins, Poor, Journalist

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel”

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• I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Good Luck, Years

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• It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

  Julian Assange

  Powerful, Taken, Believe

  "Julian Assange: The man who played with fire". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. February 6, 2011.

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• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

  Dan Rather

  Doe, Lasts, Journalism

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2014

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Vacuums

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• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

  Rowan Williams

  Communication, Journalism, Social

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

  Lionel Barber

  Cutting, Effort, Firsts

  "Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: 'News now is not the newspaper'". Interview with Roy Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Thinking, Cnn, Needs

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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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, Journalism

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

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• If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

  Ben Bradlee

  May, Journalism, Robbing

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

  Bill Kovach

  World, Demand, Way

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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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• If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Tuesday, Doe, Half

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• If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

  Stephen Fry

  Song, Smart, Mad

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• Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

  Daniel Schorr

  Military, Agency, Government

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• Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Practice, Support

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