#journalism

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism. ↗

— Jayson Blair

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It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. ↗

— David Brock

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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. ↗

— Drew Curtis

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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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

— Lord Northcliffe

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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

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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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

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