- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism Quotes
On deadlines, doubt, and the line between reporting and opinion.
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to see the way journalism is devalued: We have to feed the machine; we have to feed the Trump outrage machine, to feed the anger against Trump, to feed the New York liberal anger.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
- Chattering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020