Journalism Quotes · Page 130

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

— Roger Ailes

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course…

— Masha Gessen

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

— Bill Gates

I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the…

— Ben Howard

“I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper,…

— David Liss

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

— Upton Sinclair

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

— Andrew Zimmern

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

— Anderson Cooper

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what…

— Carl Sandburg

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for…

— Stephen King

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk,…

— Dave Barry

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she…

— Isabel Allende

I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things.…

— Tom Ford

I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are…

— George Clooney

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the…

— Herbert Bayard Swope

The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to…

— Thomas McKean

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

— Cecil B. DeMille

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

— Frank Miller

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

— Claire Fox

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

— Morgan Neville

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

— Kevin Richardson

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

— John Gutfreund

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

— Matt Drudge

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

— Michael Moore

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

— Daniel Lyons

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and…

— John F. Kerry

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

— Dele Momodu

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk…

— Lizz Winstead

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

— Monica Hesse

I went into journalism for a reason. I try to be a thoughtful person. I try to see all sides. And I…

— Carole Radziwill

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for…

— Brooke Baldwin

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

— Ben Horowitz

I was a paperboy delivering the Kansas City Star, I hated the Sunday edition, it weighed about 3 pounds and I had…

— Steve Doocy

I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick.

— Lorrie Morgan

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

— Ronn Torossian

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

— Michael Arrington

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country…

— Rupert Murdoch

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

— Russell Baker

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

— Jake Tapper

The tabloid press is notorious but I'll never understand an attitude where someone from a newspaper wants to create problems that don't…

— Paul Mullin