Journalism Quotes · Page 121

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in…

— Bob Hawke

“being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.”

— Lemony Snicket

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just…

— Louis C. K

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good…

— Ben Bradlee

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in…

— Steve Bannon

Normally you have news, weather and travel…but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

— Michael McIntyre

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

— John Gallagher, Jr

“The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds…

— Oswald Mosley

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and…

— Connie Chung

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When…

— Fred Durst

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but…

— David Cross

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you…

— Assata Shakur

When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing…

— Faith Adiele

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the…

— Anonymous

“I've had our paper's gossip column since last month. It is egalitarian. I look for people who are quite obscure, and report…

— Renata Adler

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

— Elliott Abrams

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into…

— Charles Kuralt

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us…

— William Cobbett

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

— Bob Woodward

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

— Josh Marshall

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the…

— Justin Timberlake

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

— Barkha Dutt

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

— Michael Pollan

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

— Samuel

There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise…

— Trudie Styler

I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News…

— Donald Trump

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

— Karl Kraus

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

— John Caples

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

— Will Muschamp

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

— Jimmy Wales

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

— Taylor Momsen

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask…

— Jose Saramago

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,

— James Risen

“As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to…

— BubbaHarold

Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

— Jay Leno

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

— Anonymous

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

— Nick Denton

I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and…

— Andrew VanWyngarden