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[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.
Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.
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.
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.
It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."
You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.
You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
We have been pushing forward on a new way of storytelling we call 'collaborative journalism' on behalf of a number of our clients.
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.