#journalism

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#journalism #much #now #part #partisanship

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. ↗

— Max Brooks

#media #news #spin #media

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#journalism #miserable #mood #perfect #tired

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#journalism #politics #marketing

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#journalism #much #never #nothing

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#broadcast #could #country #crisis #david

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. ↗

— Tina Brown

#craft #dan #end #him #in the end

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken #truman