Journalism Quotes · Page 118

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

— Brian Stelter

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

— Wendell Phillips

I think in terms of being a good presenter, it's not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually…

— Mary Nightingale

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical…

— Richard Cobden

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox,…

— Mike Wallace

I go on all the channels, mostly CNN and MSNBC. I have gone on Fox every couple of months.

— Richard Painter

“I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.”

— Kay Mills

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

— Kirsty Gallacher

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The…

— H. L. Mencken

Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to…

— Fred Barnes

I know what people say about Fox and about what they say is a tilt to the right. Meanwhile, the reporters I…

— Ed Henry

“He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and…

— Jennifer Lanthier

It's difficult to be the spokesperson for something that internally is falling apart. That's a tremendous amount of pressure to put on…

— Richard Ashcroft

It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks…

— Chris Hedges

“The great danger in the South comes precisely from the fact that the public is not informed. Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial…

— John Howard Griffin

Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could…

— Franklin Foer

In journalism, I have done many a bad report. Some have been exceptionally terrible.

— Ravish Kumar

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

— Rebekah Brooks

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

— Hallie Burnett

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to…

— Michael Connelly

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

— Gore Vidal

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

— Mary Cheney

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

— Karl Kraus

“The Web is the national MLS already. It’s happened. You’re arguing over yesterday’s news.”

— Rich Barton-Founder Expedia and Zillow

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

— Jorge Ramos

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the…

— Nelson DeMille

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

— Anonymous

The world has changed - we can all get news 24/7 from any device, any outlet... but we want to tell different…

— Jeff Zucker

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

— Molly Ivins

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's…

— Rufus Sewell

In a very dysfunctional business, CNN happens to be the most functional network I've worked at.

— S.E. Cupp

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing…

— Cheri Bustos

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me…

— Fuzzy Zoeller

The National Informer? Are you serious? Uh-oh look, alien babies on the rise. Looks like they duped us on that one too!

— Mouth McFadden

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

— Joseph Pulitzer

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle…

— Oscar Wilde

A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.

— John Caples