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Journalism Quotes
"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
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"Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
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"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation."
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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"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."
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever."
"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
"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."
"And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes."
"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
"Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one."
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
"I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track."
"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
"I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that."
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."
"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed."
"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
"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."
"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
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