Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
I expected to go into journalism or law.
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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