Journalism Quotes · Page 110

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they…

— Lily Cole

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.

— Dagen McDowell

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

— William Finnegan

People don't want to hear the news anymore; they more worry about celebrity scandal, gossip. The news doesn't have to be truthful…

— Emanuel Sebastiao

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be,…

— Rob Lowe

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

— Nora Ephron

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where…

— Kate Adie

“I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.”

— Adam Roberts

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and…

— Michael Crichton

The alternative to the corporate media is a renaissance of citizen journalism emerging around world - exploring the different avenues that do…

— Abby Martin

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that…

— Joel Edgerton

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and…

— Alex Tizon

The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who…

— Greg Gutfeld

I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who…

— Dave Barry

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

— Peter Chernin

“Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. I’m broke and without…

— Phil Garlington

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any…

— Neil Postman

“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.”

— Jasper Fforde

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

— Rush Limbaugh

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

— Amira Hass

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

— Keith Allen

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake…

— Paula Broadwell

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.

— Daniel Lubetzky

“But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292”

— Rachel Simon

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable…

— Kevin Bacon

Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.

— Kevin Bleyer

There are great news anchors; they're probably very smart, but they're not talking to the audience like real people. They're just reading…

— Ana Kasparian

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just…

— Nicole Polizzi

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

— Martha MacCallum

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many…

— Big Boi

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the…

— Paul Virilio

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first…

— Dave Barry

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

— Adam Michnik

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people…

— Jamie Cullum

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was…

— Michael Pena

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates