Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. — Carl Bernstein
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations. — George Orwell
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power. — Amira Hass
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. — Christiane Amanpour
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. — Henry Anatole Grunwald
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. — Walter Cronkite
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. — Walter Lippmann
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. — David Remnick
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth. — Jared Kushner
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak. — Christiane Amanpour
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. — Carl Bernstein
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. — Tristan Tzara
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. — Arthur Miller
Short Good Journalism Quotes
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. — Arthur Christiansen
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. — Gloria Borger
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
What Is Journalism Quotes
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. — Johnny Depp
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. — Bob Woodward
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women. — Liz Truss
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart. — Flavia Weedn
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. — Natalie Goldberg
The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians. — Jon Stewart
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. — Tom Brokaw
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. — Katharine Graham
Good Reporter Quotes
In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf
Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct. — John J. Pershing
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. — Richard Halverson
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman — Bill Kaulitz
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. — Herman Wouk
Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe — Edgar Allan Poe
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them? — Abram Hoffer
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%. — Douglas MacArthur
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause. — George Whitefield
Journalism Quotes
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all — Lala Lajpat Rai
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! — Benito Mussolini
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson
Bad Journalism Quotes
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. — Kevin Henkes
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. — Julian Assange
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks. — Naguib Mahfouz
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. — Graham Greene
It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?' — Jim Rohn
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination. — Graham Greene
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. — Will Rogers
Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too. — Chelsea Manning
Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly. — John Shaw Billings
Modern Journalism Quotes
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. — Tom Brokaw
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. — Shane Smith
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. — Oscar Wilde
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony. — Nick Denton
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through. — Sayings
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life. — Judy Woodruff
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. — Oscar Wilde
I read like everybody - like every other writer. — Nat Hentoff
Newspapers Journalism Quotes
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read. — Jimmy Breslin
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. — Charles A. Dana
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. — G. K. Chesterton
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. — Molly Ivins
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. — Harry Allen Overstreet
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. — Francois Gautier
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories. — Dave Barry
They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course. — Joseph Pulitzer
Investigative Journalism Quotes
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists. — Otto Schily
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. — Gwen Ifill
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism. — Tim Cahill
No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism. — Monica Crowley
The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past. — Jill Abramson
Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery — John Pilger
Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned. — Irving Kristol
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story. — Hank Phillippi Ryan
Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism. — Arianna Huffington
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in. — Scott Pelley
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism. — Dave Barry
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. — Hunter S. Thompson
Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players. — Marv Levy
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. — Bob Costas
Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone. — Daniel Schorr
When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section. — Linda Ellerbee
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life. — Tom Stoppard
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. — Arthur Brisbane
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. — Nicolas Bentley
If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism. — Bill Kovach
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn
Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart. — Ted Kooser
The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it. — John Chancellor
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal. — Clay Shirky
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. — David Remnick
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. — Walter Isaacson
I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it. — Anne M. Mulcahy
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. — Rowan D. Williams
My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states. — Anderson Cooper
Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations. — John Piper
Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal. — Jim Rohn
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. — Kurt Loder
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. — William Cowper
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. — Rowan Williams
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide. — Laurie Notaro
I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for. — Chace Crawford
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. — Horace Mann
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good. — Jim Ryun
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it. — Garry Marshall
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