Jim Walton Quotes

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.