Journalism Quotes - Page 32

• I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

  Katherine Boo

  Thinking, Differences, Problem

  "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

  David Shuster

  Organization, Comfort, News

  "The 'Live TV' Suicide: Forgive Shep Smith, But Boycott Buzzfeed" by David Shuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

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• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  Jill Abramson

  Frustration, Past, Careers

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• I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

  Julian Assange

  Skills, Language, Found

  "Julian Assange: my life in the embassy". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 14, 2013.

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• Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

  Julian Assange

  Long, Want, Facts

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• There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

  Chuck Todd

  Stories, Links, Crime

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• I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Democracy, Feels

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• I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

  Francine Prose

  Four, Novel

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• Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Lamps, Politician

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• The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, Fundamentals, Absurd

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• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  LZ Granderson

  Technology, Rocks, Media

  "America, a nation without heroes" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Father

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• I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

  David Weigel

  Smart, Lying, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 2, 2013.

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, People, Religion

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wind, White

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• Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Differences

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• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

  Karl Kraus

  Prophet, Historian, Backwards

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Shortage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Missions, Intellect, Presses

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Stories, Retrospect

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• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Crowns, Literature

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• Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Conflict, Used

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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