Fred Allen Quotes

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

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

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

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

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Profiles aren't journalism.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Journalism is not writing.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.