622 Quotes About Journalism

In addition, the distortion of actual crime statistics vs. media coverage, shows that news outlets portray black Americans being depicted as suspects or criminals at a rate that exceeds actual arrest statistics for those same crimes by a whopping 24 percentage points- a disparity which reveals a horrific implicit bias in reporting.

This style of reporting parrots and gives greater legitimacy to the frankly disturbing level of vigilance police seem to exercise in their war on poor nonviolent offenders, a vigilance which all too clearly paints a scantly unflattering portrait of the priorities of police, and the prevalence of white supremacist attitudes across all institutional levels.

Popular media uses the depersonalized ‘Unidentified Black Suspect’ as little more than a plot device in its parable of implicit racism- while ignoring the fact that these are people, not plot devices, and that black lives are not ours to own, and the story of black culture is not one white people get to define and rewrite according to what generates clicks and viewership.

لو كانت الصحافة حرة لما وافق مجلس الشعب على تعديل الدستور بحيث يحق لرئيس الجمهورية أن يرشح نفسه ما يشاء من المرات، مخالفاً نص الدستور الذي لا يجيز لرئيس الجمهورية أن يرشح نفسه أكثر من مرة ثانية!

لو كانت الصحافة حرة لما تعرضت مصر لهذة الأزمة الخانقة التى تهدد البلد بالإفلاس، وتهدد الشعب بالجوع ولسلطت الصحافة الضوء على القرارات المرتجلة، والمشروعات الخيالية، والقوانين المرقعة، ولطالبت أن يوضع الأكفاء في المناصب بدلاً من الإمعات من الأصدقاء والمحاسيب

Don't oppose mass surveillance for your own sake. Oppose it for the activists, lawyers, journalists and all of the other people our liberty relies on.

The profession of journalism is an important one and considered by many to be a mandatory component of a free society. Will you get access to the brightest minds and greatest reporters for free? Perhaps, but if we hope to continue to see their best work, society needs to support them properly. Be a paid subscriber.

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.

I don't care if they are reading our mail. Bring it on, Tron! I dare you. Try to take away my freedom of expression. I'm a journalist. A free-speech warrior. I serve in the Army of the First Amendment. I didn't take this job for the bad money, and the regressive health care coverage. I'm here for the truth, the sunshine, the casting open of closed doors!