Bill Kovach quotes

“In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
-- Bill Kovach

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“If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.”
-- Bill Kovach

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“Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.”
-- Bill Kovach

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“In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
-- Bill Kovach

Source : Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.”
-- Bill Kovach

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“The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.”
-- Bill Kovach

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“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.”

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!”

Source : "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.

“A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.”

“I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.”

Source : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.

“In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.”

“I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.”