#journalism

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. ↗

— Lord Northcliffe

#does #explain #journalism #others #personally

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#apt #britain #conversation #extension #history

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

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#capote #journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. ↗

— Harold Evans

#find #journalism #more #off #out

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#dishonest #disorderly #euphemism #journalism #lie

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#books #care #determined #dreams #friends

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#become #biggest #biggest problem #friends #involved