Zitat des Tages über Journalismus / Journalism:
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
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.
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
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.
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.