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Journalism
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
作家和记者往往对政治过于简单化,而与生活的其他领域一样,政治也更为复杂。
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
许多人不会想到进入新闻业,就像污水处理行业一样——这至少对我们所有人都有好处。
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
新闻是受欢迎的,但它主要是作为小说而受欢迎。生活是一个世界,报纸上看到的生活是另一个世界。
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
当我还是一名自由职业者的时候,我认为新闻业是一种行当,现在我在这里,我知道这是一种行当。
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
人们认为新闻业比现在更高尚。我不知道它是否有当时的声望。
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
我认为衡量新闻的标准是它所提供的信息的质量,而不是与我们相关的戏剧或烟火。
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
新闻业构建了暂时停滞的均衡,并赋予无序以隐含的秩序。这距离现实已经有两步之遥。
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
一般来说,被吸引到新闻业的人对自下而上发生的事情更感兴趣,而不是自上而下。
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
新闻视野变得敏锐,对每一个事件、每一个个人和社会结构都产生了最大的影响;但珩磨是一致的。
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
生活的图片故事所造成的那种不必要的、漫不经心的、肆意的、蓄意的伤害,并不是负责任的新闻报道的必要工具。
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
摇滚新闻的定义:不会写作的人,采访不会思考的人,为不会阅读的人准备文章。
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
我认为,当金钱开始腐蚀新闻业时,它破坏了新闻业,破坏了产品的信誉,你最终不会成功。
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Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page.
医生会掩盖他们的错误。律师挂。但是记者们把他们的放在了头版。
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
新闻业很大程度上就是对那些从来不知道琼斯勋爵还活着的人说“琼斯勋爵死了”。
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
任何可以理解的艺术作品都是新闻的产物。
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
大多数的摇滚新闻是那些不会写作的人,采访那些不会说话的人,采访那些不会阅读的人。
I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
我一直很喜欢写作,我毕业时拿到了英语学位;我做过一些新闻报道。
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
新闻业的勇气是支持不受欢迎的人,而不是受欢迎的人。