Journalism Quotes (931 Quotes)

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Bad manners make a journalist.

There were certain instances where I used humor to deflect questions, and I guess some reporters took offense,

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

His goal is not quality journalism. His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political power.

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Mike's decades of journalism experience make him an irreplaceable asset to our staff and to the community.

Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism, ... I will simply restate what I have said many times I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs.

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune.

She initiated the idea. It was the epitome of reporter involvement. She was nervous but it was an excited nervous. It turned out very good. It was a big story for her. It made an incredible impact. You knew she was going places.

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

Tom was one of those perpetual-motion reporters, always running from one court to another, ... And if he wasn't in the courthouse or at a trial, he was on the phone. He had probably the best stable of lawyers and court contacts anyone has ever had.

Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

But so far, in the accounts given by reporters about their conversations with administration officials, no such crime has been described. What has been depicted is an administration effort to refute the allegations of a critic (some of which did in fact prove to be untrue) and to undermine his credibility, including by suggesting that nepotism rather than qualifications led to his selection. If such conversations are deemed a crime, journalism and the public will be the losers.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Journalists and media people here are really distancing themselves from Judith Miller.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

This award is very special because it recognizes what I think of as members of the infantry -- reporters who do the heavy lifting, even though they don't personally have the high public profile that some journalists in print and broadcast media attain. Their commitment to reporting difficult stories over the long haul, often against the conventional grain, is a tremendous public service, and the example of endurance and honor that they bring to the profession is a reminder of what journalism is about at its best.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

These students are the cream of the crop. We have hundreds apply every year from all over the country. Students can use this for continuing their education in broadcast journalism.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Just minutes before I was doing this live pepper spray thing, I started getting a nasty headache. It was coming on strong and I felt like I was going to pass out from the pain, but I had to go on with the demonstration. I let the reporter spray me with live cameras rolling, and in seconds my headache was gone. I was in pain, but I knew I had something big here. I was shocked.

The skills that you learn here not only prepare you for a career in journalism, they prepare you for any number of careers. We want to open up that head start to people who can really use it.

I read that, ... But I don't talk about journalism. It's not about me. It's about the writer.

There are policy decisions being made such as restrictions on photography at Dover Air Force Base, restrictions on coverage at Arlington National Cemetery, as far as what reporters are being allowed to cover and the ground rules for coverage.

Research suggests these kids are only running with the curve. A June survey by the Pew Research Center found that while most respondents look favorably upon their local media, their perception of the press in general is more negative than ever. The public is not rejecting the principles underlying traditional journalism, ... Rather it suspects journalists are not living up to those principles.

We get up, go to a meeting, get on a bus, come here, get dressed, get on a bus, go to practice, get on a bus, get dressed, talk to reporters, get on a bus, go to the hotel.

While we've always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, we're seeing a different type of phenomenon the federal employee who's been wronged. If you can somehow compel the journalists to be agents of discovery, it's going t

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

That was great. Terrible journalism, but what great television.

I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The nave person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.

It's clear that there is a highly corrupt relationship between some journalists and those in positions of power, ... This indictment shows the corrupt nature of the press system and its linkage to power.

I don't like blurring lines between news and editorial. If Cooper and the others are working out their search for meaning in life on the air, that is not the role of a journalist.

There are Bar exams and such for lawyers. There is no clear line like that for journalists.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a union president who surfs the 'Net. But I will definitely be more careful.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The fact is, the New York Times is a national treasure, like Yosemite or the Navy band. It is not a normal corporation, and it should not be. If you think market-driven journalism is such a great thing, then buy shares in Gannett and subscribe to USA Today.

You're in the news business and you're in the business of arresting the attention of people and prying them away from what they take for granted. They must read the next day's paper and so on. While the desire to gain attention is a dynamic in journalism, it's not the only one. The predominant dynamic since journalism's inception has been the desire to capture the attention of people. Another dynamic is the extension of democratic enlightenment.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.