#journalism

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. ↗

— Harold Evans

#find #journalism #more #off #out

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#any #between #flawed #hero #journalism

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#also #brushing #dedicated #entire #genre

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#become #biggest #biggest problem #friends #involved

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#being #being ignored #blogs #grassroots #had

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#flawed #journalism #mechanism #profession #rule

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#any #every #every man #everywhere #had

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#college #fluently #french #go #i

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal. ↗

— Andy Grove

#career #journalism #lost #suddenly

During discussions in his office, Bradlee frequently picked up an undersize sponge-rubber basketball from the table and tossed it toward a hoop attached by suction cups to the picture window. The gesture was indicative both of the editor's short attention span and of a studied informality. There was an alluring combination of aristocrat and commoner about Bradlee: Boston Brahmin, Harvard, the World War II Navy, press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, police-beat reporter, news-magazine political reporter and Washington bureau chief of Newsweek. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#men