But ‘Strictly’ is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism… not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.
I’ve always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism’s dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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.
We didn’t see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?
Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love the profession, I admire people that do it. But like with any story if there’s an isolated incident of wrongdoing, you have to shed light on it, to not shed light on it would be tribalism.
People are worried about what’s going to happen to journalism – and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.
I wouldn’t say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.
I don’t want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism – they’re not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.
When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don’t see that anymore.
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.
Even journalism has ethics and everyone should follow them.
I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you’re groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you’re done for.
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn’t practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
Nobody in media and journalism knows more about ‘deep state’ than I do.
I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.
I’m not an advocacy journalist – that’s not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.
There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there’s a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I’ll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
Journalism is not what it used to be. I thought it was an important job, but it is not. I’m idealistic, and it pretty much upsets me that negativity sells and that even if I wanted to tell the truth, I wouldn’t be able to if my boss does not okay it.
Journalism is about results. It’s about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn’t cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
In the end, Dan Rather’s legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal – when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn’t talk about investigative journalism, even though that’s our core.
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I’d become a writer.
If you believe in journalism, you don’t insult good journalists.
Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
When Arianna Huffington founded ‘The Huffington Post’ in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven’t said.
To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It’s lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Art is not journalism. In art, you don’t make it to convey a message.
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.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it’s in my blood.
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
I’ve always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it’s difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.
My first thought when I started in journalism is that I wanted to work for a fashion publication like ‘Vogue’ or ‘Glamour.’
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
I think newspapers shouldn’t try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
I’m not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science – and then learn to write.
I think journalism is important.
I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don’t think there’s enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.
Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it’s also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
I don’t answer the phone or do my email; I don’t do anything until I’ve got the day’s writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That’s a level I can sustain.
