#journalism

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

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

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

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. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#classes #college #couple #i #journalism

Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm neither a chemist nor an editor; all I do is take the pill or the assignment and see what happens. Now and then I get a bad trip, but experience has made me more careful about what I buy... so if you have a good pill I'm open; I'll try almost anything that hasn't bitten me in the past. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#journalism #writing #writing-life #experience

I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#future #loneliness #suicide #journalism

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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