Journalism Quotes · Page 108

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've seen news organizations outright just take photos from Instagram and use it for news without credit, without permission.

— Tim Pool

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

— Dan Bongino

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

— Walter Lippmann

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out…

— Michelle Dean

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about…

— Coco Austin

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe…

— Honore de Balzac

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had…

— Anonymous

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses.…

— Roger Ebert

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent…

— David Mamet

Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over…

— Mary McCormack

It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be…

— Julian Assange

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named…

— Tom Robbins

If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am someone who tunes into more ethical journalism, and I'm not someone who dwells a lot on the negative, so I…

— Terri Irwin

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

— Julian Assange

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism... not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

— Craig Revel Horwood

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

— William Scranton

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

— Bill Keller

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

— Tina Brown

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

The thing is with the media, I have a love-hate relationship with [it]. [Journalists] are only doing their jobs and you can't…

— Michelle Mone

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people…

— Burton Rascoe

Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks'…

— Walter Cronkite

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

— Jimmy Gomez

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

— Terry Pratchett

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

— George Bernard Shaw

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight…

— Gore Vidal

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

— Michael Kinsley

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

— Jimmy Gomez

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not…

— Bill O'Reilly

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

— Sam Raimi

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

— Helen Thomas

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

— Cyril Connolly

I absolutely loved working for 'The Sun' on 'Page 3.' It was an amazing job and a catalyst for future opportunities.

— Keeley Hazell

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

— Thomas Jefferson