#journal

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

#became #cause #change #change the world #college

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that. ↗

— David Talbot

#both #clinton #fox #fox news #hunger

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon. ↗

— David Talbot

#editorial #ever #gratifying #here #how

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession. ↗

— David Talbot

#cause #journalism #just #profession #wacky

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. ↗

— David Talbot

#american #become #celebrities #journalism #magazines

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. ↗

— David Talbot

#closest thing #cruz #i #journalism #me

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas. ↗

— Jim Walton

#before #cnn #dangerous #deploying #equip

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#honest #journalists #like #politicians #stay

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#first #first time #ideological #instead #journalistic

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#credibility #end #i #i think #journalism