Journalism Quotes · Page 106

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

— John Pomfret

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

— Ferdinand Mount

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

— Anne Applebaum

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

— Maya Wiley

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I…

— Joseph Fiennes

Although I'm great at political commentary and journalism, it's not my passion. 'Gorilla Mindset' is.

— Mike Cernovich

The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

— David Folkenflik

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

— Val Kilmer

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere…

— e. e. cummings

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do…

— Peter Morgan

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if…

— Condoleezza Rice

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,…

— Alain Badiou

You don't cover the federal government or policy-making or legislating, or you shouldn't, I should say, because you are looking for a…

— Jen Psaki

With some of the journalists, I've known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I…

— Naomi Osaka

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the…

— Dan Rather

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not…

— Chuck Klosterman

“...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he…

— Gore Vidal

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

— Bill Gates

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

— Morgan Neville

Too much of our media, and not just sports media, but media, in general, is one where the people with the voices…

— Will Cain

Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for…

— William A. Rusher

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

— Katharine Graham

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

— Ron Schiller

“now I would almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, who’s the journalist who seems to want to help him get to Ecuador.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

— Donald Trump

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of…

— Joseph Lelyveld

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists…

— Michael Arrington

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult…

— Chris Chibnall

“the evening crowd on University Avenue appeared to be living in an earlier American era, one lacking desperation, hysteria, and Fox News.”

— Robert Atwan

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

— Dick Cheney

Regardless of political beliefs, if we truly hold freedom & democracy dear to our hearts we will support freedom of the press.

— Anonymous

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what…

— Joss Whedon

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing…

— Ken Livingstone

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive…

— Jose Mourinho

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

— Lewis Black

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

— Nicholas Kristof

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I…

— Martha MacCallum

If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.

— Dana White

Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it's also a political operation.

— Brian Stelter