Eduardo Galeano Quotes

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

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.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's always going to be briliant documentaries about it, and there's always going to be people who want to see them.

Great questions make great reporting.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.