Journalism Quotes · Page 120

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations...

— George Orwell

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde…

— Gretchen Carlson

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

— Jemele Hill

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

— Edward James Olmos

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

— Joe Klein

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they…

— Dave Barry

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are…

— Malcolm X

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they…

— Edward Jay Epstein

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would…

— Harold Evans

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving…

— Amanda Ripley

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but…

— Kate Adie

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of…

— Jon Meacham

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical…

— Paul Samuelson

I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues.…

— Anderson Cooper

Dont listen to the news and media and let them influence your thoughts...open your eyes to the world and figure it out…

— Anonymous

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the…

— Ben Edwards

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

— Pedro Almodovar

In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say - we're sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts,…

— Ory Okolloh

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the…

— Robert G. Picard

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

— Thomas Frank

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

— A. J. Liebling

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a…

— Walter Lippmann

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper…

— Warren Buffett

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

— Robert MacNeil

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news…

— Jane Smiley

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out…

— Jeff Zucker

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

— Brianna Wu

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the…

— Elton John

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be…

— Scott Pelley

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

— Megyn Kelly

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

— Colin Flaherty

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

— John King

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots…

— David Attenborough

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

— Barbara Boxer

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith