Journalism Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Missing, Drug, Scene

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Jobs, People, Special

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• I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people

  Joseph Pulitzer

  People, Mind, Progress

  "Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners". Book by Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage (p. 9), 1999.

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• To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

  Phil Donahue

  News, Journalist, Good News

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fiction, Strange

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• Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Government, Sound

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.34, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Objectivity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  David Simon

  Lying, Choices, Would Be

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• I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Magazines, Literature, Feels

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• I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

  Eve Arnold

  Serious, Realizing

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

  Abe Fortas

  Essentials, Stories, Injury

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• The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

  Anthony Shadid

  Writing, Sometimes, Bigs

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• And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Government

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Quality, Make Or Break, Recessions

  "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Real, Want, Firsts

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• The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Responsibility, Thinking

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• My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none.

  Katherine Boo

  Jobs, People, Giving

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• During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

  Molly Ivins

  Government, Stories, Looks

  "Jon Carroll" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

  Julian Assange

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Dna, Data, Ideas

  "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowing, Agnostic, Believer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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