top of page
.png){kind=small}
"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Journalism quotes
"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
Explore more quotes by Roger Mudd
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
"The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers."
"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
bottom of page