Journalism Quotes · Page 112

I don't know what to believe in the mainstream media anymore. My instinct is to not believe any of it, and it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

— George Orwell

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it…

— Natasha Kaplinsky

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky always does an excellent job of understanding media's false assumptions enough to immediately push back on them.

— Mollie Hemingway

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ,…

— Richard Cohen

Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.

— Russ Baker

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

— Jon Stewart

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

— Fareed Zakaria

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning…

— Glenn Beck

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect…

— Safak Pavey

I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the…

— Rachel McAdams

I never read the good press and never read the bad press. If you believe the good press you're finished. If you…

— Dervla Kirwan

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the…

— Andrew O'Hagan

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and…

— Wendell Berry

“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime,…

— Barry Glassner

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a…

— Ari Melber

You know what, you entertainment news journalists are dangerous. You take a little tiny thing and you blow it up into a…

— Anne Hathaway

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the…

— Sandra Bernhard

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

— Jerry Springer

I loved newspapers. I loved the dusky marks on my fingers that proved I had spent the morning educating myself.

— Mary Katharine Ham

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and…

— Madonna Ciccone

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

— Herman Melville

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

— Glenn Greenwald

CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that…

— David Folkenflik

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

— Craig Charles

“I like the New York Times. I only wish it were softer, and more like toilet paper.”

— Jarod Kintz

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

— Janet Malcolm

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

— Che Guevara

“Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a…

— Manuel Castells

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

— Phil Donahue

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

— Bob Woodward

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

— George Orwell

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

— Owen Arthur

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

— Colin Powell

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

— Neeraj Kabi

“Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!”

— Anonymous

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I…

— Dan Rather