622 Quotes About Journalism

It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

It is not the job of the media to try to skew events but to report on events honestly. Anything else is journalistic malpractice.

If you end up with the story you started with, you weren't listening along the way.

It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

anybody worth a shit gets fired from those places.