#journalism

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

— Gerald Clarke

#capote #journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#given #in-depth #journalism #lazy #now

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#consciously #even #evil #i #journalism

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living. ↗

— David Baldacci

#truth #verification #age

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art-criticism #critics #insight #knowledge #music-criticism

Everything is in the way the material is composed. ↗

— Joseph O'Connor

#journalism #media-bias #communication

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party. ↗

— Hélder Câmara

#journalism #media #socialism #business

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

#pamphleteers #pamphlets #politics #education

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#high-school #journalism #journalists #media #newspapers

Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we are able to know and publish them—the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria—feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . ↗

— Harry Chandler

#imagination