Journalism Quotes · Page 111

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been…

— Fareed Zakaria

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and…

— Senator John Kerry

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come…

— Brit Hume

I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it…

— Richard Parsons

Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form…

— Brian Stelter

“Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!”

— Ray Bradbury

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep…

— Tom Rachman

I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are…

— Jeremy Scahill

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…

— Janet Malcolm

Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the…

— Varg Vikernes

Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen…

— David Ogilvy

In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we…

— Mariane Pearl

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or…

— William C. Bryant

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've…

— Magnus Larsson

Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been…

— Larry Elder

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

— Joe Biden

“Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.”

— Michael Bracewell

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.

— Wolf Blitzer

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

— Rush Limbaugh

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

— Eric Sevareid

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

— Freeman Dyson

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

— Louise Linton

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint,…

— Roger Ailes

Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported…

— Conan O'Brien

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the…

— Ross Douthat

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's…

— Michael Hastings

I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers,…

— Nicholas Kristof

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

— Carol Burnett

People can say the media stuff drains you and everything, but you set everything up accordingly to the schedule.

— Aljamain Sterling

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you…

— Anne Applebaum

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

— Tom Petty

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

— Thabo Mbeki

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

— Naftali Bennett

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

— Dave Barry

“Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.”

— Jonah Goldberg

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the…

— Tito Jackson