Journalism Quotes by Errol Morris

9 Journalism quotes by Errol Morris

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Errol Morris contributes nine concise observations on journalism, each one a clear, thoughtful note. The brief selection makes it easy to absorb his perspective quickly.

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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

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First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se,…

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A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

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Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen…

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If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a…

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We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been…

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We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the…

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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories,…

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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

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Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people…

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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a…

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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

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I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to…

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You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a…

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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

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Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a…

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You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

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Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying…

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