Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

I love journalism.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

My province needs to understand that Alberta's issues are national issues.

My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn't plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.

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