Found a journalism quote the other day and it led me to another one and ya... there's only a dozen there but says it more eloquently than I could say it as I'm no expert :P but I love writing.
To reflect on the reason I studied this for so long was an English teacher pointing out how words could change minds with ideas.
Journalism has been a way of communicating ideas and events over the past 500 years (since Gutenberg's press). Writers do so in hopes people keep thinking outside the box about the world outside their
doorstep. Though cynically viewed, do remember with a single story, a journalist can empower his interview subjects to speak out -- initiate change to make the world a better place. Pretty cool for some ink on
recyclable paper to bring to light the things that need to be exposed and changed. Never stop writing truth.
Anyhows.....
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
--Joseph Pulitzer
News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty..
of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.
--Rupert Murdoch
Publish and be damned
Print the news and raise hell
--Traditional newspaper credos
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
--Oscar Wilde
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
--Gonzo Journalist Hunter Thompson
USA Today, March 26, 1998
on the other-hand
If I have to do all this superficial crap you've assigned me, I need time to do it in depth.
--Jon Carroll
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 16, 1987
quoting a fellow newspaper writer
Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
--Dali Lama
Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper.
--Mother Teresa
Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.
--Larry King, an American journalist in London, August, 2005
On behalf of the newspaper industry (new, cost-cutting motto: ``All the News That'') I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say ``serve you better,'' I mean ``increase our profits.'' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.
--Dave Barry
Miami Herald, May 20, 2001
Terry Pratchett quotes from his book The Truth
copyright 2000, published by HarperTorch, New York.
William reckoned that no matter how big [the new office] was, it would never be neat. Newspaper people thought the floor was a big flat filing cabinet.
This is a newspaper isn't it? It just has to be true until tomorrow.
[defining news]
Go out and find things that people want put in the paper.
And things that people don't want put in the paper.
And interesting things.
Like that rain of dogs a few months ago?
There was no rain of dogs two months ago.
But...
One puppy is not a rain. It fell out of a window. Look, we are not interested in pet precipitation, spontaneous combustion, or people being carried off by weird things from out of the sky...
Unless it happens.
Well obviously we are if it does happen. But when it doesn't, we're not. Okay? News is unusual things happening...
And usual things happening...
And usual things, yes. But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the paper ...
Except sometimes it isn't.
...News all depends. But you'll know it when you see it. Clear? Right. Now go out and find some.
to sum it up....
THE DAILY FISH wrap. A 19th century Irish immigrant named O'Reilly called the newspaper ``a biography of something greater than a man. It is the biography of a DAY. It is a photograph, of twenty four hours' length, of the mysterious river of time that is sweeping past us forever. And yet we take our year's newspapers -- which contain more tales of sorrow and suffering, and joy and success, and ambition and defeat, and villainy and virtue, than the greatest book ever written -- and we use them to light the fire.''
--Adair Lara
Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, December 30, 1999
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