226 quotes found
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice a...”
“...looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?''Not entirely.''Did you enjoy any of it?''I liked going to the library,' he says. 'I think I prefer books to people -- prim...”
“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...”
“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps a...”
“They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.”
“Take away the newspaperand this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact factsso far as we are able to know and publish themthe public imagination would r...”
“But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the y...”
“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”
“I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important. ”
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security guards at the Arab League or grab man-on-the-str...”
“...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. S...”
“As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....”
“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous licentious abominable infernal Not that I ever read them no I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
“Janet Malcolm had famously described journalism as the art of seduction and betrayal. Any reporter who didn't see journalism as "morally indefensible" was either "too stupid" or "too full of himsel...”
“(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.”
“It is hard for a writer to call an editor great, because it is natural for him to think of the editor as a writer manqu. It is like asking a thief to approve a fence, or a fighter to speak highly o...”
“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their ...”
“Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.”
“At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, par...”
“As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or ni...”
