What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.
Hans Jürgen EysenckTags: journalism
Why did you become a journalist?”
“Better than working for a living.
Tags: journalism
From: Beth Fremont
To: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder
Sent: Thurs, 09/30/1999 3:42 PM
Subject: If you were Superman …
… and you could choose any alter ego you wanted, why the hell would you choose to spend your Clark Kent hours — which already suck because you have to wear glasses and you can’t fly — at a newspaper? Why not pose as a wealthy playboy like Batman? Or the leader of a small but important nation like Black Panther? Why would you choose to spend your days on deadline, making crap money, dealing with terminally crabby editors?
Tags: funny journalism clark-kent attachments rainbow-rowell
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: books writing journalism magazines editor
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Alexander CockburnTags: politics journalism
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Alexander CockburnTags: philosophy despair journalism gossip treachery
Sometimes, when I look at my work at the newspaper and squint in just the right way, I can even see it as a microcosm of democracy itself. After all, every staff member participates in the creation of each issue. I solicit their ideas. I value the contributions of women and minorities. Of course, I wasn't democratically elected, but what newspaper chief ever was?
Jennifer SteilTags: journalism deomcracy
A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: photography media journalism camera journalists tabloid-journalism paparazzi photographs rent bills tabloids
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
Claud CockburnTags: journalism fourth-estate
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: fear power courage fearlessness journalism 2013
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