Journalism Quotes · Page 127

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More…

— Matt Drudge

But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something…

— Maria Taylor

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

— Paul Allen

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

— Janet Malcolm

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press…

— Hillary Clinton

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

— Truman Capote

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

— Jonathan Alter

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is…

— Bruce Jackson

It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give…

— Brooke Baldwin

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with…

— Ishmael Reed

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may…

— Margaret Carlson

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a…

— I. F. Stone

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely…

— Edward Said

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.

— William Hurt

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

— Frank Miller

“Fiercely competitive TV channels covered the story of the breaking city as “Breaking News.” Nobody pointed out the irony.”

— Arundhati Roy

Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.

— Fiona Barton

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

— Ai Weiwei

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed…

— Helena Bonham Carter

“But if initial accusations were sparse, this all changed in April, after the first journalists arrived in town.”

— Helmut Walser Smith

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from…

— Walter Lippmann

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

— Ron Suskind

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

— George Bernard Shaw

It's not for me to challenge operational policing based on one story in the media.

— Kemi Badenoch

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

— Studs Terkel

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

— Walter Cronkite

You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.

— Tony Romo

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

— Nelson Mandela

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle…

— Gene Fowler

“I read the tabloids. I see the trash you bring home. You’d be lucky to land Tori.”

— D.L. Hess

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

— Warren Christopher

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

— Donald Trump

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

— Arthur Brisbane

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such…

— Mike Wallace

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

— Michel Houellebecq