Journalism Quotes - Page 18

• I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

  Diane Lane

  East, World, Found

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• I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Vocabulary, Style

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• When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Rolling, Stones

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, www.powells.com. November 1999.

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• I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Real, Media

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• To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Media, Curriculum

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

  Michelle Malkin

  Boys, Alaska, Media

  "Chasing Sarah: The boys behind the bus" by Michelle Malkin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

  Hilary Mantel

  Ideas, Lasts, Facts

  "On the one hand ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2007.

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• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Keys, Needs

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  Mandy Moore

  Mom, College, Blood

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Joy, Faces, Ideology

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.256, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Intellectual, Culture

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. 15 October 2011.

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• If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

  Steven Pinker

  Views, People, Life Is Like

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• Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, Interesting, Collecting Information

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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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