Journalism

[kumar06]

Journalism is the field concerned with producing news reports and editorials through various forms of media including newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and the Internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors or photographers; broadcast presenters or producers—serve as the chief purveyors of information and opinion in contemporary mass society. "News is what the consensus of journalists determines it to be."
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[spaceman]

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for ****offs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy ****-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."

-- HST

 

[Ace]

Yogi Berra, when introduced to Ernest Hemingway, the well-known writer.

"Hey Ernie, what paper do you write for?"

 

[Michael_ Gee]

"Journalism is shouting 'Lord Jones dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." - G. K. Chesteron.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

"I can tell you what it's like to work for a newspaper. Imagine a combine, one of those huge threshing machines that eat up a row of wheat like nothing, bearing right down on you. You're running in front of it, all day long, day in and day out, just inches from the front of the maw, where steel blades are whirring and clacking and waiting for you to get tired or make one slip.

The only way to keep the combine off you is to throw it something else to rip apart and digest. What you feed it is stories. Words and photos. Ten inches on this, fifteen inches on that, a vertical shot here, a horizontal there, scraps of news and film that go into the maw where they are processed and dumped onto some page to fill the spaces between the ads.

Each story buys you a little time, barely enough to slap together the next story, and the next and the next. You never get far ahead, you never take a breather, all you do is live on the hustle. Always in a rush, always on deadline, you keep scrambling to feed the combine. That's what it's like.

The only way to break free is with a big story, one you can ride for a while and tear off in pieces so big, the combine has to strain to choke them down. That buys you a little time. But sooner or later, the combine will come chomping after you again, and you better be ready to feed it all over again."


-- Ray Ring, "Arizona Kiss"

 

[Double Down]

“As I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any other enterprise. It is really the life of kings.”

-- H.L. Mencken

 

[Mystery_Meat]

"EXTRA! EXTRA! TODD SMELLS"

-- Bartholomew J. Simpson

 

[Ace]

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-- Thomas Jefferson

 

[goalmouth]

"A journalist is just an out-of-work reporter."

--?

 

[mustangj17]

Journalism is the major that enables you to have the most fun in college.

 

[OTD]

It's not enough any more to give 'em just news. They want comics, contests, puzzles. They want to know how to bake a cake, win friends, and influence the future. Ergo, horoscopes, tips on the horses, interpretation of dreams so they can win on the numbers lottery. And, if they accidentally stumble on the first page... news!

That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!

--Ed Hutcheson, Deadline U.S.A.

 

[amoney]

Journalism. In it for the money.

 

[SF_Express]

Journalism. Always hated that word.

Newspapering. Or, now, perhaps, news. Fine with me.

 

[DemoChristian]

Here's one that seems especially relevant today.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787.

 

[BYH]

Journalism is the major that enables you to have the most fun in college.

I have no idea if you're right, but I can't imagine having any more fun majoring in something else.

Of course, I might be in better shape if I majored in something snooze-worthy like, oh, I don't know, ANYTHING ELSE.

 

[dooley_womack1]

...has been in my kitchen, paying for the food therein.

 

[FreddiePatek]

"What do you think I'm trying to do?. Look, I got news for you. I'm not locked up in the men's room with a cop because it's a good time. Frankly, I've had better times, okay? I'm here because I think the story is wrong. Is it? Is it? If you have something, give it to me now, but don't stand there and act coy and say "**** you", because, quite frankly, it's a waste of all of our time. And you know what? I don't have any more time. I have no more ****ing time. I need it ****ing today, I need it right now!"

Henry, "The Paper"

 

[PaperDoll]

"I am not the editor of a newspaper, and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one." -- Mark Twain

 

[Fredrick]

"I can tell you what it's like to work for a newspaper. Imagine a combine, one of those huge threshing machines that eat up a row of wheat like nothing, bearing right down on you. You're running in front of it, all day long, day in and day out, just inches from the front of the maw, where steel blades are whirring and clacking and waiting for you to get tired or make one slip.

The only way to keep the combine off you is to throw it something else to rip apart and digest. What you feed it is stories. Words and photos. Ten inches on this, fifteen inches on that, a vertical shot here, a horizontal there, scraps of news and film that go into the maw where they are processed and dumped onto some page to fill the spaces between the ads.

Each story buys you a little time, barely enough to slap together the next story, and the next and the next. You never get far ahead, you never take a breather, all you do is live on the hustle. Always in a rush, always on deadline, you keep scrambling to feed the combine. That's what it's like.

The only way to break free is with a big story, one you can ride for a while and tear off in pieces so big, the combine has to strain to choke them down. That buys you a little time. But sooner or later, the combine will come chomping after you again, and you better be ready to feed it all over again."

This pretty much covers it all for a reporter at least.

 

[Walter Burns]

Journalism's a shrew and scold, I like her
She makes you sick, she makes you old, I like her
She's daily trouble, stress and strife
She's love and hate and death and life
She ain't no lady, she's my wife
I like her
--Franklin P. Adams, "The End of the World"