"Journalism as theater is what TV news is." — Thomas Griffith
"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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Thomas Griffith
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10 Quotes by Thomas Griffith
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Journalism is in fact history on the run.
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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
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Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to…
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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
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To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a…
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Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
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He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
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I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
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Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar…
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
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You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come…
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Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
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Serious journalism need not be solemn.
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial…
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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how…
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder…
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so…
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