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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. -- Jacques Ellul
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. -- Michael Kinsley
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity -- John Cleese
Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there. -- Alfredo Jaar
Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly. -- Osborn Elliott
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. -- Antonin Scalia
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. -- Thomas Frank
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. -- Milton Glaser
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. -- Janet Malcolm
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble. -- Dave Brat
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. -- George Steiner
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.' -- Jeff Greenfield
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. -- Bill Moyers
I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. -- Lee Strobel
The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences. -- Graydon Carter
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting. -- Sheri Fink
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. -- Tom Hayden
If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian. -- John Oliver
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind. -- Sebastian Junger
Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible. -- Bill Keller
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. -- Italo Calvino
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary. -- Kamal Ahmed
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. -- Iris Chang
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain. -- Brendan I. Koerner
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world. -- Samantha Power
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. -- William S. Burroughs
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. -- Edward Snowden
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
I pride myself on having a journalistic remove. -- Erik Larson
A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect. -- Jane Eisner
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. -- Naomi Wolf
There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of. -- Bernard Goldberg
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility. -- Marlon Brando
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos -- Ben Hecht
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. -- Ben Hecht
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation. -- Juan Williams
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. -- Eason Jordan
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest -- Claude C. Hopkins
At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. -- Shana Alexander
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson. -- Tom Shales
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art. -- Gillian Wearing
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. -- Fareed Zakaria
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience. -- Kenneth Rexroth
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. -- Erin McKean
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep. -- Jeff Greenfield
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice. -- Bill Keller
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. -- Alan Brien
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. -- Roger Mudd
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. -- Sarah Schulman
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. -- W. P. Kinsella
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. -- Alexander Cockburn
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. -- Stephen Spender
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine. -- Charles Krauthammer
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. -- Julien Torma
We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation. -- Stephen Mallinder
Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm. -- Marvin Olasky
I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy. -- Hilton Als
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined. -- Julian Assange
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. -- Karen Traviss
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. -- Mark Strand
I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about, -- Nate Silver
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. -- Andrew Ferguson
Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society. -- Thomas Sadoski
You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk. -- I. F. Stone
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you. -- Chris Hondros
Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in. -- Ralph Steadman
I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field. -- Teju Cole
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children. -- Christiane Amanpour
It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity. -- Ed Helms
I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job. -- Bryant Gumbel
Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible. -- Bill Keller
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. -- Dave Eggers
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. -- William Safire

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