Jacob Weisberg Quotes

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

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

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.'

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Entertainment and information work well together.

I own 'The New York Observer.'

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

We try and slow down the news.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I'm a journalism junkie.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.

I love journalism.