top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Journalism quotes
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski
"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
War
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
Old
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
Literature
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
Experience
"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."
War
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
Fear
"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
Politics
"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."
Now
"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."
War
"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
Literature
bottom of page