A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.