He was a bridge for the muckrakers of a century ago and the crop that came out of Watergate. He held politicians to a level of accountability in an era where journalists were very deferential to those in power.
Journalism Quotes (931 Quotes)
You know it's easy here to buy journalists.
Scores of comments were purged from his site. Meanwhile, he lets the one remain that is calling a journalist a whore because they disagree with my view.
We've had some reporters ask, 'Why the public hearings Why do we do them' This is the classic example.
The traditional role of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
I've always sat back and said I've tried to do two things in journalism. One is report stories that no one else could report and develop contacts that no one else thought to develop. I worked around the clock to do that. It's those two things that caused suspicion among those who don't know me.
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
I had originally wanted to be a journalist and write editorials. I also liked the extended interviews done by Dick Cavett and Bill Moyers. That seemed like a wonderful life.
Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true. It was false. He was at the beginning of the chain of the phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And he lied about it afterward, under oath, repeatedly.
The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.
I started off majoring in math and computer science and then majored in journalism because I knew I wanted to become a writer one day.
I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
You cannot be objective about human suffering and people dying. Any person who was not outraged by that, I'm not sure they have business being a reporter.
But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
This is a sad day for the Times and for journalism.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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I've always said this is the lowest form of journalism, and I see my job is to be entertaining. And I guess it's my curse, because I did it in a different way, they kept making me do it again in a different way. ... This book is my tonic for a celebrity-crazed culture.
This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.
The Society of Professional Journalists in their code of ethics says that journalists should avoid conflicts of interest real or perceived. Clearly it would be a conflict of interest for anyone acting in a journalism capacity to simultaneously be serving as a public servant.
It's good to be free. I went to jail to preserve the time-honored principle that a journalist must respect a promise not to reveal the identity of a confidential source. . . . I am leaving jail today because my source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations relating to the Wilson-Plame matter.
I think she had to bank on the fact that she could connect in some way with her captors. Unlike most Western journalists, she spoke good Arabic. And if you look at her work, she comes across as compassionate, as balanced.
I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. When the series starts, he--like a lot of liberal New Yorkers--are starting to realize something is very wrong in the gay community. My investigation into what becomes called AIDS is going to be a big part of the show.
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
There were a half-dozen Scottish and English theater groups who were not invited but decided to go anyway, and camped around the edges of the festival, ... A reporter saw some of the shows and said in a review that there were interesting things happening on the fringes of the festival hence the term 'Fringe.'
After meeting with Louisiana officials last week, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, quote, 'Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response.' He continued, quote, 'I'm not saying that myself.' Then I'll say it. If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water, forcing many to steal for mere survival. Their bodies would not have been left to float in putrid water. They would have been rescued and relocated a hell of a lot faster than this. Period. I mean, reporters and crews are getting to stranded people, and government and military agencies can't Why don't the networks run FEMA When I saw pictures of black people taking things from stores, my first thought was 'How are those Nikes necessary for your survival' And then it hit me People need shoes and clothing. Some escaped the floods with just the clothing on their backs. We have American citizens, not 'refugees' from an underdeveloped country, waiting for food, water, shelter, and electricity for four, five, six days.
We used to have five correspondents. One of ours for health reasons had to retire a year or so ago, and we just haven't found anybody to replace her. It takes a certain type of person to keep up with things like that. It's not high journalism, but it's important news.
We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
The production of the television feature by the renowned travel journalist was a solid endorsement of Jamaica's tourist industry and an affirmation of the island as a premier destination,
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Some of the BBC reporters were not sure whether Nepal played cricket. One guy asked me how you play cricket in the mountains.
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
This film is a tribute to the reporters who are in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Africa, in our poor city of New Orleans, to bring us the truth.
Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
Fitzgerald charged that Libby told FBI agents and the grand jury that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another ... at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter.