- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism Quotes
On deadlines, doubt, and the line between reporting and opinion.
One line here draws a sharp distinction between straight reporting and an opinion column, framing them as almost entirely different kinds of reading, while another describes the tired, edgy mood that seems to suit the job. If you want more on the craft itself, browse our More quotes.
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
- Disseminate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.
- Adversarial
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- Nov 07, 2020
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
- Dismal
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- Nov 07, 2020