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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press. — Vivian Schiller

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff. — Lance Reddick

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. — Eleanor Mondale

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV. — LZ Granderson

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

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. — Frank Caliendo

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing — David Halberstam

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. — Bob Greene

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. — Thomas Griffith

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story. — Sidney Zion

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism. — Regina Hall

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. — Matt Taibbi

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet. — Gwenda Bond

It's the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is. — Nathan Hill

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth. — P. J. O'Rourke

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body. — Caitlin Thomas

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. — Glenn Greenwald

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it. — Horace Greeley

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it. — Chuck Todd

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it. — John Chancellor

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press. — Martina Navratilova

The dictator's black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons — Zoe S. Roy

There is no democracy without journalism. — Scott Pelley

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery. — Morley Safer

Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers. — Phillip Knightley

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career. — Steve Capus

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism. — D. Patrick Miller

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled. — Malcolm Gladwell

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' — Tina Brown

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out. — Tom Rachman

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

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards. — Chris Hillman

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. — Katharine Graham

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. — Donald Davis

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances. — Alberto Cairo

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal. — Andy Grove

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession. — Rebekah Brooks

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite. — Bill Keller

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art. — Bob Schieffer

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. — Jonathan Lynn

Journalism is an act of faith in the future — Ann Curry

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. — Alain De Botton

Media was once about protecting a name; on the web it is about building one. — Ryan Holiday

Art is art, and journalism is journalism. — Lance Reddick

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. — Tom Brokaw

Journalism is the entertainment business. — Frank Herbert

People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press. — Auliq Ice

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. — Warren Ellis

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. — Eduardo Galeano

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures. — P. J. O'Rourke

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. — Stephen Fry

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience. — Michael Perlis

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. — Diane Lane

The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade. — Gwenda Bond

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. — Peter Landesman

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer

Journalism is great therapy — James Stordahl

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. — Helen Thomas

Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets. — Mira Grant

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. — John Gunther

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing. — David Weigel

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. — Walter Lippmann

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that. — Jonathan Maberry

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism. — Lachlan Murdoch

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers. — Jason Alexander

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. — Christopher Hitchens

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon

Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan. — Poppy Harlow

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. — Brit Hume

In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism. — Regina Brett

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. — P. J. O'Rourke

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!" — Zoe Kravitz

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging. — Ben Ehrenreich

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. — Terry Pratchett

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business. — Jim Walton

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways? — Jon Stewart

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press. — Andrew Vachss

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper — Mother Teresa

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens. — Alberto Cairo

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. — Aaron McGruder

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass

I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway. — Gwenda Bond

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last. — John Maxwell Hamilton

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done. — Joe Klein

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. — David Halberstam