622 Quotes About Journalism

Novins had a great impact on my way of thinking and the journalist I became. Although also a friend of Walter Cronkite, he spoke to us mostly about Murrow. He had high expectations for his students.

I’d become hooked on journalism at once in college when I took my first news writing class at age 19.

My first trip to the mainland came after I had been traveling extensively in Asia on reporting assignments for The Journal of Commerce newspaper, located at that time on Wall Street in New York City.

How does what we see cloaked as “news” by “journalists” jive with his mandate that a journalist should strive to be objective, not blur facts with opinions, and maintain the impartial integrity of the noble profession of journalism?

Don’t let the politicians bought and sold in the political markets, the chosen “analysts”, the assigned “experts”, the co-opted writers on the Empire’s payroll tell you what is newsworthy. Don’t listen to all those who are more interested in fame, in standing on the podiums of arrogance and sitting to dine at the tables of triviality tell you what is newsworthy.

The pen had been mightier than the sword but then the tongue took over.

The most fundamental change is that more of the responsibility for knowing what is true and what is not now rests with each of us as individuals. The notion that a network of social gatekeepers will tell us that things have been established or proven is breaking down. Citizens have more voice, but those who would manipulate the public for political gain or profit - be it corporations or the government - have more direct access to the public as well.

This new way of knowing is no longer a lecture by professional authorities but rather a dialogue, with all the strengths and weaknesses that implies. It is a partnership between all of us as consumers of news and information and the former gatekeepers we once relied on to verify and vet information for us.

Thought we may little understand how, we are all assuming more control over what we know about the world beyond our direct experience. We are becoming out own editors, our own gatekeepers, our own aggregators.