Journalism Quote by Thomas Frank Download Open image “Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.” — Thomas Frank ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journalism Persecution Place Special Stories
Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love the profession,… — Paul Walter Hauser Copy Share Image
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture,… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins so many… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however,… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image