Journalism Quotes · Page 15

“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was…

— Carl Bernstein

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to…

— David Simon

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

— Hank Azaria

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons,…

— Thomas Sadoski

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

— Walter Cronkite

Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

— Sean Hannity

I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.

— Candace Owens

... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

— Hayden Christensen

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism... not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

— Craig Revel Horwood

I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the…

— Johnny Colt

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are…

— Gwen Ifill

I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat…

— Dean Baquet

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't…

— Michael Azerrad

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and…

— Alex Tizon

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in…

— Molly Ivins

Journalism is organized gossip.

— Edward Eggleston

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism…

— Isabel Allende

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

— Gary Webb

Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some…

— Seymour Hersh

I never really wanted to be a journalist, honestly. I always wanted to be a writer, and I thought the only way…

— Michelle Zauner

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But…

— Mollie Hemingway

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman