Journalism Quotes (931 Quotes)



    I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

    The first time McCain waded into a group of reporters while on a campaign bus last summer, I was aghast, ... I soon realized that in many respects, that the typical shaping of the media that a press secretary is traditionally involved with was not going to be a part of this campaign.






    I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.


    Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

    I'm absolutely committed to 'Nightline' remaining a serious, substantive show. 'Nightline' has a unique place in American television journalism and it's important that should continue. Of course, we wish it to be an entertaining show, but the journalism comes first always.

    Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

    In Peter Johnson's USA article I was quoted thusly Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster, ... Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering.



    We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

    A lot of us in politics get angry with journalists from time to time but in the circumstances, and to the journalist because he was a Jewish journalist, yes he should apologize,


    Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

    The California courts have a long history of supporting and protecting freedom of the press. We are looking forward to the opportunity to ask the Court of Appeal to correct a ruling that endangers all journalists.




    When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, 'No, I will rebuild, but I will build higher'. That is our vision for the future,

    As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

    Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

    U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

    In the interests of the independent media the United States has pledged to foster in Iraq, it is imperative the authorities act speedily to clarify with news organizations any suspicions arising from the activities of journalists working for us.

    I was in Japan in 2000 and it is an experience you just don't forget. The host people were extraordinary. You get to see so much of the various cultures and you stay in homes wherever you go. There are vocational days when people get to see business operations in that country. Someone (in the field of journalism) would go to see printing operations and things of that nature. Each person would see something from their own field.

    Those of you who have tracked this issue closely, most by now have thought that this day would never come. Has anyone performed to a slower, longer, later standard than I in my search for a new Atlantic editor ... Beginning last April, I began what I called my Hillary Clinton Listening Tour, traveling the country and asking advice on the extreme talent today in journalism.


    Because it has become such a dangerous place, news organizations do rely on Iraqi staffers. These journalists get caught up in their own country's sectarian violence. Their presence has also created potential conflicts with the U.S. military, which has had a difficult and slow time accepting that Iraqis have been professional and objective journalists.

    I think for decades she's been an inspiration to the women who have entered journalism, but I also think she's been a good role model for decades of investigative reporters regardless of gender. She not only became this pioneer among women journalists, but she also carved out and established this niche of journalism called investigative reporting.



    CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

    I decide who I'm going to give these bags to, ... Madison Mulholland has credibility because I was a journalist for 22 years, and I think I'm able to say who's hot and who I would give these products to.


    Our objective is to create a more substantial approach to in-depth journalism. We want audiences to know that when there is a major world event or topic that affects our lives, and they are looking for more context, more depth and more information, Discov

    At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.

    There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

    We at CNN are pleased and relieved to hear the announcement that these journalists have been released and this situation brought to a peaceful and amicable resolution, ... The safety of journalists is paramount to CNN, as it is to news organizations worldwide.


    Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

    I wasn't really portraying a columnist, but a heel. Otherwise I'd have spent time in newspaper offices, studying the characterization. No, I just played a heel who happened to be a columnist.

    The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.


    You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do They hand me a script. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.


    Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.



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