Journalism Quotes

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. - Denis Johnson

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. - Warren Ellis

Your job really, whatever you do in the field of journalism, is just to be fair. It's a very difficult balancing act, but one that must be done. - Rafael Sanchez

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. - Kurt Loder

You don't know anything about the history of journalism, psychology, or my life! ... You can't handle the truth! - Tom Cruise

You can crush a man with journalism. - William Randolph Hearst

Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind. - Michael Moore

Working for a sports team never even dawned on me as being a potential career. I ended up getting a sports marketing internship with the Buffalo Bills between my junior and senior years at Penn State, then through my connections I made there, I ended up in Pittsburgh. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I do because even though I was a broadcast journalism major, I really didn't know what I wanted to do for a career. Things could not have worked out better for me. - Pete Gergely

With the intrusion, and maybe rightly so, of legal concerns, medical concerns, business concerns, maybe some of that might be changing sports journalism a little bit - and maybe should change. The sports reporters of today - the good ones, anyway, working for good news organizations - shouldn't be held to any less stringent professional and ethical standards than any other journalist. - Tim Wulfemeyer

While he was a great man and did more for this continent in terms of journalism than anybody in history, like anyone he had flaws. - Salim Amin