Journalism Quotes · Page 119

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

— Molly Ivins

The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

— Jennifer Pozner

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

— Masego

“A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.”

— Andy Zaltzman

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen…

— Kenny Chesney

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

— Andrew Breitbart

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people…

— Frank Zappa

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one…

— Jim Bishop

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with…

— Stella Young

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is…

— Caitlin Thomas

The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

The secret of any kind of reporting is to go with a guide. So if you, you're going to see Hezbollah in…

— David Ignatius

A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's…

— Liam Cunningham

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship…

— Morley Safer

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book,…

— Dick Durbin

As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course…

— Nancy Kates

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

— Rush Limbaugh

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

— Joe Scarborough

We have been pushing forward on a new way of storytelling we call 'collaborative journalism' on behalf of a number of our…

— Richard Edelman

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

— Josh Hawley

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking…

— Steven Weber

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

— A. J. Liebling

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

— G. Gordon Liddy

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

— Thomas Jefferson

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Linda Ellerbee

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

— Anonymous

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

— Brian Stelter

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling ofdisappointment.

— Anonymous

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

— Roger Mudd

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

— Maira Kalman

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

— William Safire

“Information coming directly from a politician or his team, without being vetted by reporters, is little more than propaganda.”

— Katy Tur

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

— Richard Flanagan

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…

— Max Weber

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

— Bill Kovach

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of…

— Bill Moyers

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

— Gayle Gardner