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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.
Literature istheart of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
— 1938 Enemies of Promise, ch.3.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
walter lippmann— 1920 Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil. See Shakespeare 742:17.
walter lippmann— 1920 Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
— 1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.
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
I just think it’s the world we live in and there is no real metric to measure us by because CNN is the only one that is still doing journalism.
— Campbell Brown (2009) in interview with Julie Menin; Partial transcript in: Warner Todd Hustonin "Campbell Brown: ‘CNN Only One Still Doing Journalism’", posted July 21, 2009
— In response to a question "What is your take on the fact that CNN, the pioneer in cable news, is really marketing your political independence to distinguish itself from its competitors?"
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separated, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.
claud cockburn— Pages 224-5 (A Discord of Trumpets (1956))
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
cyril connolly— Ch. 3: The Challenge of the Mandarins (p. 19)
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
andrew ferguson— "Scotty: All the news that's fit to schmooze," The Weekly Standard (2003-02-24)
Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.
hunter s. thompson— Letter to Jerome H. Walker (7 December 1958), p. 142
Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
frank zappa— "Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993)
I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.
larisa alexandrova— The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media.
You can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".
julian assange— "‘A real free press for the first time in history’: Wikileaks editor speaks out in London". Journalism.co.uk. 2007-08-12. Retrieved on 2010-08-01.
It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
julian assange— Farquhar, Peter (May 19, 2010). "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange adamant his site broke Collateral Murder encryption". News.com.au. Retrieved on 2010-06-17.
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)
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life what people are interested in. That's journalism.
burton rascoe— As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.
Rainer Maria Rilke— Letter Ten (26 December 1908)
What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation.
bertrand russell— Letter to Lucy Martin Donnely, July 6, 1902.
Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.
tom stoppard— Carr, Act I (Travesties (1974))
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
— Frank Zappa (c. 1970s), cited in: Dwight Rounds (2007) The Year the Music Died: 1964-1972. p. 231
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
thomas carlyle— Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, A History (1837), Part II, Book I, Chapter 4.
What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation.
— Bertrand Russell, in a letter to Lucy Martin Donnely (July 6, 1902).
In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.
— Oscar Wilde — quoted in Janis, Lois August (2003). Voyage to Insight. CMJ Publishers and Distrib.. pp. Page 70. ISBN 1891280406.
journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
gilbert keith chesterton— The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) The Purple Wig
journalism attracts people with exceptional linguistic talent, but I have found that very few have the mathematical sophistication to appreciate the difference between skill and luck.
— Chapter 11, Oliver Stone Meets Wall Street, p. 220
journalism has become a great god of the period, and gods have a way of ruthlessly and demonically taking over there servitors.
— Chapter Two, The Encounter With Nothingness, p. 27
journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
— Russell Baker, in Goodbye to Newspapers?, The New York Review of Books, 16 August 2007
journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned.
— Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992).
