Journalism Quotes

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Journalism delivers news, but not necessarily relevance.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead. It is unreliable to the point that it is nothing more than a nuisance, an obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

How can people trust social media over newspapers today?

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.

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

Christopher Hitchens

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

Osho

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink

I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.

Dan Groat

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

De philosopher DJ Kyos