Journalism Quotes - Page 17

• I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

  Hugh Hefner

  Strong, Thinking, Media

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• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Matter, Meat, Transformation

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

  Enid Bagnold

  Hands, Littles, Bread

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Stupidity, President

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• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

  Dan Rather

  Doe, Lasts, Rating

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2014

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• I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

  Dan Rather

  Thinking, Important, Source

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

  Dan Rather

  Growing Up, Forever, Doubt

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  Dan Rather

  Art, Mistake, Blow

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

  Harry Reasoner

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

  Robert Redford

  Information, Internet, Truth Is

  "Robert Redford Revisits 'All the President's Men'". Interview with Mike Banka, www.aarp.org.

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• After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

  Chris Rock

  School, College, Years

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• I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

  Gus Van Sant

  Drama, Interesting, Different

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• The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

  Will Self

  Writing, People, Fiction

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• A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

  Nate Silver

  Commitment, Views, Objectivity

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• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  News, Lost, Awake

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• The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Media, America

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable, important book for those of us who watch, read, or listen to the news.

  Marvin Kalb

  Book, Important, Watches

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• When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Mom, Couple, College

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• On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

  Ellen Goodman

  Attitude, Thinking, Television

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• I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

  Chris Jericho

  Writing, Degrees, Persons

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• I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Impact, Community

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• Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

  Scott Pelley

  Strong, America, Democracy

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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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