Journalism Quotes · Page 19

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

— Ben Stein

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

— Richard Schickel

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

— Carl Bernstein

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

— Ray Bradbury

“Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.”

— Rob Thomas

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

— Joey Skaggs

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

— Mike Cernovich

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

— Stephanie Grisham

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

— Ted Rall

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

— Yao Ming

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

— Arianna Huffington

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

— Harold MacMillan

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

— Nathan Myhrvold

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure…

— Bobby Ghosh

“To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and…

— Lynne Truss

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be…

— Miranda Otto

Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an…

— John Updike

I think we are constantly asked day in and day out to find the things that we find frustrating or inspiring or…

— Jordan Klepper

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing…

— Chris Patten

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

— William O. Douglas

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

— Clifton Daniel

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.

— Max Hastings

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

— Anonymous

I think in the media we tend to deify people in these public spaces.

— Nicholas Galitzine

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

— Spiro T. Agnew

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

— Mike Wallace

What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion

— Lester Markel

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

— Mike Cernovich

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

— John Lewis

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

— Warren Buffett

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

— Alexander Lebedev

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

— Henry David Thoreau

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

— Thomas Jefferson

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

— Stephen Fry

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

— Ksenia Sobchak