#journalism

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists. ↗

— Otto Schily

#classified #document #does #every #freedom

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. ↗

— Nate Silver

#call #commitment #having #journalism #lot

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

#actually #almost #best #contemporary #inclined

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. ↗

— Julian Assange

#i #journalism #mean #real #states

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#daily #fringes #i #journalism #mail

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#journalists #media #newspapers #love

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

#journalism

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism