Journalism Quotes · Page 104

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

— Steve Coogan

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

— Sharyl Attkisson

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

— Dan Bongino

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a…

— John Bolton

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

— Dan Rather

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is…

— Chris Jericho

Kids, like adults, need to have a balanced news diet - one that challenges their own world view and encourages them to…

— Alisyn Camerota

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude…

— Scott Westerfeld

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about…

— Robert Scheer

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination…

— Dan Gilroy

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are…

— Gwen Ifill

“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve…

— Jack London

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information,…

— Scott Pelley

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,…

— KRS-One

That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our…

— Sheri Fink

“War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private…

— Caitlin Thomas

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

— Clay Shirky

It seems like once you get on any kind of mass media's bad side, you are like free-range chicken. It's like open…

— Xzibit

We have never protected illegal speech, as it seems that we have been accused of by some less than credible journalists.

— Jim Watkins

[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

— Scott Eastwood

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and…

— Joe Wilson

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that…

— Cher

Let's face it, not all sites or apps are following the tried and true news rule of being vigilantly fact-based.

— Alisyn Camerota

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

— Barton Gellman

Always remember that knowledge is power. You can't count on the main stream media clowns to give factual information.

— Anonymous

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it…

— Honore de Balzac

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching…

— Aaron McGruder

I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live…

— Steve Hilton

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

— Paul Watson

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

— Charlie LeDuff

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of…

— Eliza Griswold

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

— Susan Estrich

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

— Patricia Heaton

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with…

— David Brinkley

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will…

— Yoko Ono

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

— Val Kilmer