#journalism

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect. ↗

— Andrew Heyward

#effect #fair #fall #fox #hate

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

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 is not a precise science, it's a crude art ↗

— Dan Rather

#art #crude #journalism #media #media-journalism

The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up. Such an important role is risky in more ways than one. It can expose the correspondent to actual physical danger; but there is also the moral danger of indulging in sensationalism and dehumanizing the sufferer. This danger immediately raises the question of the character and attitude of the correspondent, because the same qualities of mind which in the past separated a Conrad from a Livingstone, or a Gainsborough from the anonymous painter of Francis Williams, are still present and active in the world today. Perhaps this difference can best be put in one phrase: the presence or absence of respect for the human person. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#attitude

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to. ↗

— John Pomfret

#face #good #happen #i #i think

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#deeply #elevation #having #i #i am

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#i #i am #journalism #know #now

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. ↗

— William Jackson

#been #came #cartooning #develop #enjoying