People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the...

It was 9:30 P.M., just an hour from deadline for the second edition. Woodward began typing:A $25,000 cashier’s check, apparently earmarked for the campaign chest of President Nixon, was deposited in April in the bank...

By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear to be nothing but an endless jumble of events through which...

Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism and public service. His reporting was a guide to all of us who aspire to better the world around us.

Hinzu kommt der Ton, in dem die Medien des Establishments über Fehlverhalten der Regierung berichten. Die journalistische Kultur in den USA gebietet es, dass Reporter jegliche eindeutige oder konkrete Aussage vermeiden und auch noch so...

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue...

How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-thousandth...

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be...

A free press doesn’t mean it’s not a tame press.

A journalist’s job is to collect information,” Ovid said to Pete. “Nope,” Pete said. “That’s what we do. It’s not what they do.” Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like...

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Mainstream news wants to keep you as a useful idiot. Instead, try being a non-useful idiot.

Sometimes, when I look at my work at the newspaper and squint in just the right way, I can even see it as a microcosm of democracy itself. After all, every staff member participates in...

As a journalist, I can also now understand his (Patrick O’Brian’s)idea that the Q&A is not particularly civilized — let alone a sports media press scrum. The formats don’t necessarily further understanding between two people....

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us...

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for ‘fucked up’. I’d been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me...

Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters’ typewriters as they wrote, passed them questions as they talked on...

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help...

It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something...

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it’s reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu’ils ne valent que pour ce qu’ils ont transmis.

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...

gazetecilerin kariyerleri de sporcularınki gibi kısacıktır. şan ve şöhrete erkenden ulaşır ve çok geçmeden yerimizi sonraki nesle bırakırız. yoluna devam edip yükselenlerin sayısı azdır. diğerlerininse yaşam koşulları kötüleşir, basını eleştirmeye başlarlar, bloglar açarlar, seminerler verirler...

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein’s name could appear with his on the follow-up story – though Bernstein was still in Miami and had...

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s feelings.

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, to see the Who...

Forgoing privacy in a quest for absolute safety is as harmful to a healthy psyche and life of an individual as it is to a healthy political culture. For the individual, safety first means a...

…Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, or is it like shares of a stock, which may have great value one day, and be...

Traditional journalism provides the view from the outside looking in, and citizen journalism provides the view from the inside looking out. In order to tell the complete story, you need both points of view.

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

Quit your bitching, if you’re not pitching

high-powered.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

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 misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden...

Journalism is not just a cause, it’s also a wacky profession.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

Better than working for a living.

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.