Aging Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

— David Grann

“It is perfectly understandable, in a world where the media shout in the same vulgar way about genocides and sexual scandals, to think that…

— Prunier, Gérard

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

— Chuck Todd

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but…

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Seymour Hersh

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

— Arianna Huffington

“In TV newsrooms, if it bleeds it leads remains the watchword. A study of 559 newscasts in twenty television markets across the United States…

— Barry Glassner

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be…

— Marcia Clark

Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than…

— Clarence Darrow

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the…

— Karin Slaughter

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior news coverage…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen