Browsing Topic Best Journalism Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

Let’s be clear: when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I love the news business. It’s in my bones. But I mourn for it. It’s destroyed itself.

This is not journalism. It’s political entertainment and, therefore, unreliable.

News media shouldn’t have a side. The press has to be seen as separate from politics, not just because this is a crucial component of trustworthiness but also because the media derives all its power from the perception of its independence.

On Julian Assange’s 50th birthday, it’s important to remember his case is not just about Julian Assange. It’s not even just about press freedom. It’s about horrible things being done by the US military that they did not want us to know about.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

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

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Good night, and good luck.

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can’t live without being online.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

And that’s the way it is.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist’s job is very interesting.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

One of the principles of journalism is you don’t lie. You never lie.

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

People are sometimes having trouble deciphering what is true, and what is journalism with integrity, and what is not. It is incumbent upon us to, if anything, explain our process, and make sure that people understand the lengths that we go to bring objective truth-telling to the air, and to bring a wide variety of perspectives and the choices we make in how we cover the news. I think we could do a little bit of a better job doing that.

I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don’t have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It’s fun to challenge and expand people’s expectations.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Journalism’s ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.