622 Quotes About Journalism

I have read a little of the material he has sent-- trial transcripts, motions, declarations, affidavits, reports... I know I cannot learn anything about MacDonald's guilt or innocence from this material. It is like looking for proof or disproof of the existence of God in a flower- it all depends on how you read the evidence.

好的小故事，多數會令人覺得「意料之外，情理之中」。爛的故事只要說到一半已被人猜到，往往因為太過陳腔濫調（cliché）。這些故事都熟口熟面，走不出套路，例如車禍中喪命的一定是「好爸爸」，身患殘疾的人總是「生命鬥士」 … 若記者未抵達現場已經知道故事是甚麼，那並不是採訪，而是將預先設定的想法套在別人身上，於是出來的故事總是刻板、僵化、陳腔。記者必須帶著開放態度，做足資料搜集，再去現場親身觀察、訪問、思考，才能找到有趣的小故事。

Free and independent media underpin any vibrant democracy.

I tried to make my body as heavy as possible as I lay there on the frozen river

Cable news is no more a town crier or gazetteer of the nation. It has gained the propensity of impinging on the power of the judiciary. Media trials during the prime time outmaneuvered and delineated the irreverent image to the power of judicial review. However, the presence of journalistic vulturism, sycophancy has downplayed their role as the fourth pillar of the state.

In Italian papers, rumor often takes the place of fact. Unconfirmed and overblown stories are often printed as fact - one trick is the frequent use of the conditional verb tense which translates into English as “is said to”...

Sometimes, in fact - and I’ve heard others say the sane thing - I have to read a story about developments in Italy in the foreign press to get a good, quick overall view of what is going on. And this is particularly true if you’ve been away and missed the first few days of coverage; Italian news stories rarely give you any background.

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

They were the paper of record, which meant they were in the business of protecting the system,