Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Meaning of the quote
Journalism is like a race against time to record important events as they happen. Just as history looks back at the past, journalists work quickly to capture the present moment and share it with the world before it slips away.
More quotes from Thomas Griffith
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
I wouldn’t believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Anderson’s muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
He loved them and cared for them, and you don’t kill kids that you love and care for.