226 quotes found
“The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all peo...”
“The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis of what affects or interests the greatest number of one's readers or viewers. Depending on the n...”
“The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Everyone called it the "Flint Urinal." Editorially, the paper had historically been on the wrong side ...”
“Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.”
“You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.”
“Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.”
“Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd ...”
“Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their ...”
“I've always wanted to be a journalist, but what am I going to do? Write articles about which movie star had the fat sucked from her ass and injected into her face? Which professional athlete just c...”
“I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest. Covering conflict, I learned that though leaders often try to c...”
“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
“Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, youre Superman, invincible. In the second, youre aware that things are dangerous and you need to be careful. In the third, you co...”
“It takes a lot of moola to fool around with national magazines, regardless of their politics. It takes even more if the paper is hell bent on shoving a hot poker up the rear end of the Establishmen...”
“Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBCs Meet the Press, once joked, Richard, just dont come to Washington.”
“It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfes saturation reporting was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing i...”
“I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.”
“Now listen,' said George angrily, 'Ive been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you whats going on.''Nonsense. If theres one place in the world where nobody knows whats going o...”
“Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.”
“When I came to the Middle East, journalists had a kind of immunity that allowed us to travel freely and meet with militants who hated Israel and the United States. In 2000, when I was working for A...”
“Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, t...”
