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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. -- Drew Curtis
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan. -- Poppy Harlow
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out. -- Tom Rachman
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. -- Gwen Ifill
When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job. -- Wolf Blitzer
The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever. -- Robert Redford
Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition. -- Donald Newhouse
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. -- Jef I. Richards
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone. -- James Fallows
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman. -- Angelina Jolie
Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking. -- George Lois
I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news. -- Sarah Lacy
In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. -- Michelle Malkin
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. -- Gary Ackerman
I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that. -- David Talbot
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. -- Charles Kuralt
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily. -- Amy Hempel
Journalism as theater is what TV news is. -- Thomas Griffith
There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism. -- Nora Ephron
I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium. -- Raghav Bahl
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? -- Nathan Myhrvold
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. -- Aaron McGruder
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him. -- Gene Weingarten
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news. -- Stephen Kinzer
I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' -- Tina Brown
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege. -- Upton Sinclair
You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience. -- Norman Pearlstine
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. -- Jill Abramson
Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism. -- Burton Rascoe
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album. -- Lil Wayne
Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly. -- Rosie DiManno

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