Journalism Quotes - Page 36

• I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

  Will McDonough

  Pregnancy, Thinking, United States

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• News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

  Gene Fowler

  Eagles, Wings, Bags

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• I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

  Jayson Blair

  People, Brilliant, Fooled

  Jayson Blair (2004). “Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times”, New Millenium

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• Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  Larry King

  Looks, Enhancement, Gullible

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• Journalism is the first draft of history

  Phil Graham

  Firsts

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Kind

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• Profiles aren't journalism.

  Fred Wilson

  Profile

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• All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Imagination, Novelists

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• I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

  Chris Carter

  Children, Hero, Men

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• My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

  Graham Greene

  Saws, Titles, Action

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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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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• We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

  Helen Thomas

  Jobs, Leader, Answers

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• Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Long, Reason, American Politics

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Tuesday, Doe, Half

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• Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

  Scott Pelley

  Gossip, Antidote

  "Scott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly" by Michael Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.

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• There is no democracy without journalism.

  Scott Pelley

  Democracy

  "CBS' Scott Pelley on Fake News, Trump's War on the Press and His Favorite Movie of the Year" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

  Scott Pelley

  Democracy, Where We Come, Succeed

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• David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Icons, Tragedy

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• I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

  Morley Safer

  Citizens, Citizen Journalism, Surgery

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• Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving, Missing, World

  "About RealClearPolitics". The Weekly Standard, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

  Michael York

  Writing, Degrees, Done

  "Interview: Michael York actor". www.askmen.com.

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• We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Marine, Puff

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• It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

  Charles Osgood

  Missing, Trying, Firsts

  Charles Osgood (2004). “Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II”, Large Print Press

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• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Funny, Political

  Attributed to George W. Bush in Associated Press interview in Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1988.

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