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But of course their doctrine states that the purpose of a suit is to harass, not to win, so from that perspective they hurt us all. They've had a real chilling effect on journalism, both before and after my piece.
Richard Behar— Interview in Marr, David (January 19, 2008). "Print and be damned - CULT". The Age: p. 3, First Edition, Section: Insight.
Marxism is at the root of debunking journalism.
— Quoted inJohn Birt The Harder Path (2002).
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
— 1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.
Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
— 1891Intentions,'The Critic as Artist'.
If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.
jonathan aitken— Criticising press reports that he had violated the ministerial code of conduct; he later started a libel trial, which ended in his conviction for perjury.
— 10 April 1995; quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd ed., 2007, p.6
Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.
leon bertoletti— Complexes, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
fred w. friendly— Commenting on New Yorker staff writer Alastair Reid's use of composite characters.
— p.65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.
His journalism was usually about journalism: no matter what he started out off writing about, he ended up writing about Hunter Thompson trying to cover a story.
william mckeen— Preface, The End, p. xv
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
anthony sampson— Chapter 9 (Anatomy of Britain Today (1965))
I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.
william styron— "A note to the reader" - This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)
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— Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner (4 November 1985), this is often quoted as concluding with the statement "There's also a negative side." Research by David Emery, in Your Guide to Urban Legends indicates that these words, however were not included by Thompson himself in the published version.
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.
robert fisk— Preface (page XXI)
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.
robert fisk— Preface (page XXIII)
It’s bizarre and disgusting to see much of America’s media making excuses for a bloodthirsty, openly genocidal death cult. Something is deeply wrong with journalism in this country.
charles foster johnson— January 6, 2009 [44]
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
oswald mosley— In 1927 after his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates. The mention of "ice-cream sellers" was a reference to Italian immigrants who had opened ice-cream parlours.
A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence . One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism . Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans , liberals & conservatives , and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news , they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
bill moyers— Speech at the National Conference on Media Reform (15 May 2005)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
tom stoppard— Interview, The Guardian (London, 1988-03-18)
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 53
A primary function of The Intercept is to insist upon and defend our press freedoms from those who wish to infringe them. We are determined to move forward with what we believe is essential reporting in the public interest and with a commitment to the ideal that a truly free and independent press is a vital component of any healthy democratic society. [...] We believe the prime value of journalism is that it imposes transparency, and thus accountability, on those who wield the greatest governmental and corporate power.
— Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill (10 February 2014). "Welcome to The Intercept". The Intercept. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence . One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism . Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans , liberals & conservatives , and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news , they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
— Bill Moyers, Speech at the National Conference on Media Reform (15 May 2005)
[I]n the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on … people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.
— Noam Chomsky (2002) Understanding Power
Real people are really harmed when fake media spreads fake news. Courts may be the last institutions capable of demonstrating the difference between human and cartoon, journalism and fraud.
Dahlia Lithwick— "Fake News Goes to Court," Slate, 16 March 2018
journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead'to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
— 1914 The Wisdom of Father Brown,'The Purple Wig'.
The First Law of journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
alexander cockburn— More magazine (1974)
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
marguerite duras— Walesa's Wife, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990)
journalism is a good place for any writer to start — the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
garrison keillor— "Post to the Host" (July 2005)
The duty of journalists is to tell the truth. journalism means you go back to the actual facts, you look at the documents, you discover what the record is, and you report it that way.
— Noam Chomsky interview in Wang, Joy (December 2004). "Lecture: Noam Chomsky". Bullpen: NYU Journalism (New York University). Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
— Summberbell, Richard (1985). Abnormally Happy. New Star Books. p. 22. ISBN 091957341X.
journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown Shilling, Lilless McPherson; Linda K. Fuller (1997). Dictionary of Quotations in Communications. Greenwood Press. p. 120, Section: Journalism. ISBN 0313304300.
