Journalism Quotes - Page 29

• Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

  David Burge

  Moving, Important, Covering

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Football, Jobs, Moving

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• I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.

  Will Leitch

  New York, Writing, Thinking

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• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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• [A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Taken, Rights, Drug

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• That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  Powerful, Photograph, Should

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble scribble: notes on the media”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Events, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nurse, Mad, Mind

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

  Annie Dillard

  Mixtures, Able, Interpretation

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hatred, Giants, Catapults

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Taste, Moral, Should

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• Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enemy, Haste

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• Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
  [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Editors, Devil, Newspapers

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Estates, Realms, Fourth

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• A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

  George William Curtis

  Echoes, Should, Journal

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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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• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

  Enid Bagnold

  Phoenix, Ashes, News

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.301, Courier Corporation

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• In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

  Ellen Goodman

  News, Amphetamines, World

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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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• Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Irony, Translate

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

  Nora Ephron

  Journalist

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Television, Reason

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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