“I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.” WritingStatesReaderConscienceUniversityJournalismJournalistColumnsLoftyArizonaColumnists Author:Laurie Notaro
“I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsReaderProudPoliticianPressesBritishTraditionalJournalist Author:Tom Stoppard
“Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.” WantRememberMastersReaderJournalist Author:Indro Montanelli
“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.” IfsWantShouldLongFactsTermReaderProfessionJournalismJournalistLong TermCredibility Author:Julian Assange
“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.” CertainAbilityWonderfulFoolReaderScientistNewspapersJournalistArroganceCategoriesAcademicPseudoDiscounts Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.” FirstsStillsEndsLinesResponsibilityReaderDrawsJournalist Author:Michael Pollan
“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.” KnowsNeedsGivingTryingPersonsLosesLinesAttentionReaderSixResearchToolsJournalismJournalistInterviews Author:Isabel Allende
“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.” LyingDiesPowerfulClassDemocracyInformationTelevisionSourceReaderInternetCitizensNewsBlindLeavingEntertainmentAccessTraditionalDumbJournalistCorporationsRetreatDeafRuthlessIdeologicalGhettoTrustworthyFusion Author:Chris Hedges