Jack Germond Quotes

I think journalism is important.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.

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

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.

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

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.