622 Quotes About Journalism

[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

Of course, politics and journalism are, as it happens, very vulgar. But their vulgarity is not the worst thing about them. Things are so bad with both that by this time their vulgarity is the best thing about them. Their vulgarity is at least a noisy thing; and their great danger is that silence that always comes before decay. The conversational persuasion at elections is perfectly human and rational; it is the silent persuasions that are utterly damnable.

El actual papel del periodismo parece estar más destinado a desdibujar nuestras opiniones en línea con una u otra corriente política que a capacitarnos para decidir por nosotros mismos. Y así, en este estado, estamos listos para que hagan con nosotros lo que les plazca, pues, anulada nuestra capacidad de análisis, se bloquea cualquier posibilidad de resistencia.

The defining elements of criticism, the theory, the philosophy, and ideas behind it, are the same no matter what type of critique you're writing.

Journalists from the future would appear as history was made. He got nervous as a crowd of them filmed his blind date from outside the cafe.

And, as a reporter, sometimes you need to fight back. If the president declares real stories fake, the record must be corrected. If a president attempts to block reporters from covering the work of his administration, we need to fight back. If a president attempts to use the tools of law enforcement to target reporters for doing their jobs, reporters and news organizations need to fight back.

In a situation like that, it is the reporter's responsibility either to get an answer or to demonstrate that the politicians are ignoring the questions.

I didn't become a reporter to dutifully record the words of the people in power. I became a reporter, in part, to hold those in power accountable.

The proliferation of news outlets and the democratization of information through the internet gives Americans the power to be more informed than ever, but it also makes it easier for us to feast on a diet of information that echoes and never challenges our biases and our beliefs. This deepens our divisions and makes them more difficult to overcome.