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“It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declarati...”
“Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. It is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which ofte...”
“Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation!”
“What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust...”
“I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a s...”
“In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presid...”
“You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a ...”
“The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.”
“I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.”
“When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from 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.”
“Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.”
“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfitsa false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little...”
“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
“When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.”
“The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sen...”
“The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
