Journalism Quotes · Page 123

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

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Jon Stewart

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

— Russ Baker

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

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

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

— Natasha Kaplinsky

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

— George Orwell

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can'ttalk, for people who can't read.

— Frank Zappa

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these…

— Bob Woodward

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty…

— Anthony Holden

Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of…

— John Caples

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious…

— Michelle Dean

James O'Keefe is a journalist, doing the work 'real' journalists don't dare, and has been conducting undercover investigations for years with dozens…

— Katie Pavlich

This is a time of tremendous ferment and experimentation that is scary and exciting at the same time. The biggest challenge for…

— Tom Rosenstiel

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it…

— Shane Smith

“It’s widely acknowledged by many pundits that we no longer live in an age of news, but of narrative as news. But…

— Sol Luckman

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

— Alan Colmes

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

— Anonymous

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

— Missy Peregrym

If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin'…

— Paul Wesley

I watch MSNBC while I simultaneously read the news. After dinner, I'm in my room for the night worrying about everything I…

— Cazzie David

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

— Frank Ocean

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I don't like to be always in the press, or on television or always be on seen. It is not how I…

— Akshaye Khanna

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

— Colin Powell

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

— Owen Arthur

My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News.

— Howard Dean

When this is over, the media will lose interest. There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It…

— Robert Pattinson

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Neeraj Kabi

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can…

— Alexander Downer

“we the people should expect integrity from the news media and unbiased reporting of newsworthy events.”

— Ben Carson

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as…

— John Lanchester

I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I…

— Andy Kindler

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through…

— Terry Pratchett

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

— Naomi Wolf

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

— Bernard Goldberg