Quote by Thomas L. Friedman Download Open image ““Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”” — Thomas L. Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There is no room for passion in journalism—unless it is a passion for presenting the truth. Accurately, honestly, and unbiased.” — M.J. Summers Copy Share Image
“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.” — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history. — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
“Once people decide they want you to do something, they don’t really care what your qualifications are. However you describe yourself becomes proof that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn’t afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad’s boss, and… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that “it” that was being sustained? I needed… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can do, as… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Second, in the desert there was no outside mediator or government to enforce laws or to adjudicate disputes in a neutral way between tribes… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“NAZ was founded in 2008 in Minneapolis, and is modeled on Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone. It uses a holistic web of family coaches… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image