Journalism Quotes · Page 14

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

— John Chancellor

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

— Randall Rothenberg

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

— Will McDonough

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

— Otto von Bismarck

I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.

— Jesse Watters

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

— Daniel Okrent

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

— David Remnick

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

— Maria Sharapova

Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters…

— Stephanie Grisham

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

— Ron Suskind

There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news.

— Elizabeth Flock

A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for…

— Fiona Barton

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

— Janine di Giovanni

Clearly, children need to be aware of the news and current affairs. I buy my own children a children's newspaper so they…

— Katie Hopkins

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

I read the newspaper every day just to see if there's anyone I know in the obituaries or the underwear ads.

— Nikhil Saluja

I think we're more relevant than ever because it is such a noisy environment out there. What's a journalist now? It's anybody…

— Lester Holt

There are certain realities about the world we live in. Syria and Iraq are just not going to get on air every…

— Arwa Damon

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he…

— Janet Malcolm

The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful…

— Edward Greenspon

As I'm sure anyone who's born after the '70s' access point is - is '70s films and '70s culture and there is…

— Rebecca Hall

It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous,…

— Judith Martin

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they…

— Dana Loesch

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but…

— Josh Schwartz

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism.

— Michael Leunig

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

— Josh Billings

“News in not what happened but a story about what happened.”

— Robert Darnton

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

— James McBride

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

— Adolphe Thiers

I never wanted to be a pundit who chases headlines.

— Jermaine Jenas

What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

— Margaret Chan

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

— Diana Gabaldon

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

— Horace Greeley

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

— Thomas Jefferson

I expected to go into journalism or law.

— Christie Hefner

I've always had the media going against me every year.

— Rasheed Wallace

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

— Anonymous

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

— Enid Bagnold

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is!

— Steve McClaren