Journalism Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• 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'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

  Charles Kuralt

  People, Romance, Lucky

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• Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Firsts, Journal

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 9: Nonfiction as Literature, p. 61), 1976.

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• Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

  Rosie DiManno

  Errors, Wire, News

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• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

  Bill Moyers

  Priorities, Profit Margin, Mergers

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• It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

  Laurie Garrett

  Giving Up, Despair, Democracy

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• The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.

  Hodding Carter III

  Wall, Believe, Average

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• Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.

  Ted Koppel

  Objectivity, Perspective, Political

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• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Government, Differences

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• My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jobs, Father, Diplomats

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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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