One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ""gotcha"" journalism, but it's also good journalism.
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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.
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
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The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde in The Critic as Artist, (1891)
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
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All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
quote by Frank Harris
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There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
quote by Frank Zappa
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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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.
quote by Harry Reasoner
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
quote by Stephen Fry
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Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
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.
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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
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