- Better
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1967, my mother - then Francie Weinman - graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.
- Getting Started
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020