Journalism Quotes · Page 105

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

— Anderson Cooper

I love journalism and broadcasting. So I'm happy about my life and I wouldn't change a thing.

— Jay Williams

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great…

— Donald Trump

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the…

— Bob Dylan

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

— Mark Twain

“I think more people should shoot newspaper editors...it might improve the press”

— Ken Follett

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

— Lewis Black

Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a…

— Richard Grenell

I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will…

— Serge Schmemann

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor.…

— Jimmy Breslin

“Reading the article he wished for more detail ... But the media was the last place one should look for truth. A…

— Jason Mott

I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them…

— Tina Brown

I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes.…

— Oliver North

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me…

— Allan Sloan

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,…

— James Lileks

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on…

— Kurt Andersen

I believe in a free and open press; people have to cover the presidency, respect the office and its current occupant. And…

— Kellyanne Conway

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has…

— Kirstie Alley

Nobody will have control of the media in the future, because user-generated content is going to become the major content.

— Jimmy Lai

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,…

— Edward P. Jones

We're going to be doing what we can to try to get news about FTX out there and get more eyeballs on…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

— Alexander Cockburn

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

— Lynn Samuels

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

— Margot Kidder

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

— John Caples

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

— Nicholas Lemann

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

— Julian Assange

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

— Bill Keller

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

— Radamel Falcao

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

— Errol Morris

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

— Tupac Shakur

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

— Peggy Noonan

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything…

— Lydia Polgreen

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in…

— Sheri Fink

“You’re just propagandists of a different ilk—for making the world flat, turning everywhere into copies of suburban America, studded with malls.”

— Ken Liu

“Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.”

— Ann Coulter

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

— Janet Varney