Al Gore Quotes

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, 'You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

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

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

For my part though silent I have at times felt that I would prefer to be governed by Davis, Beauregard & Bragg, [than] to be thus abused by a set of dirty newspaper scribblers who have the impudence of Satan. They come into camp, poke around among the lazy shirks & pick up their camp Rumors & publish them as facts.... They are a pest and Shall not approach me, and I will treat them as spies, which in truth they are.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

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

We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?