Журналистика

Journalism Qoutation

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

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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.
Carl Bernstein
«Guardian» (London)», June 3, 1992

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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.

Horace Greeley

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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

Bill Moyers
«Channel Maker», February 29, 1979

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Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Harry Reasoner

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Ten years before — even five — I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and no obstacle was big enough to put me off. Since then I have learned that some things were bigger than they looked from a distance, and now I was not so sure anymore just what I was going to get or even what I deserved.

Hunter S. Thompson,
Songs Of The Doomed  More
Notes On The Death Of The American Dream (page 76)

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But then just days after it came out, I began to get calls and letters from all over the country saying what a fantastic breakthrough format in journalism. I thought, Jesus Christ . . . I guess I shouldn’t say anything. In a way it was an almost accidental breakthrough — a whole new style of journalism which now passes for whatever Gonzo is . . . accidental and desperation.

Hunter S. Thompson,
Songs Of The Doomed  More
Notes On The Death Of The American Dream (page 137)

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Reasons for not keeping a notebook:
  1. the ambiguity of the reader—it is never quite oneself.
  2. I usually hate the sight of my handwriting—it lives too much and I dislike its life—I mean by “lives,” of course, betrays too much!

Lionel Trilling
Notebook entry, 1944.
Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)

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