Journalism Quotes - Page 35

• What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

  Paul Fussell

  Want, Publicity, Publish

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Thinking, Yellow, Tvs

  "The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media".

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• Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Smart, Player

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• The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

  Scott Pelley

  Running, Country, Strong

  Source: deadline.com

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• [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

  Katie Couric

  Differences, Making A Difference, Crafts

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• Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, Views, Waiting

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.

  Maria Shriver

  Men, Males, World

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• My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

  Rebecca Mead

  Jobs, Important, Degrees

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Editors, Information Flow

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

  Phillip Knightley

  Thinking, Analysis, Serious

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

  Nicholas Lemann

  People, Interesting, Focus

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

  Sean Hannity

  Media, America, Said

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, Cynical, News

  "State of Play - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Criminals, Misuse, Estates

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Thinking, Facts

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• In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, East, Gita

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• Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Privilege, Freedom Of The Press

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.263, Rajpal & Sons

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• Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Average, Important

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Trying, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.

  Rory Carroll

  Lazy, Target, Opponents

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Medicine, Community, Rogues

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Beats

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