#journalism

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#arrested #constructs #disorder #gives #implied

Journalism is in fact history on the run. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#history #in fact #journalism #run

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

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

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#failure #hope #ideology #journalism #joy

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

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 whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#craft #dirty #journalism #little #need