I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims— its readers—about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
I hear women say, 'It's so hard to be a working parent because you can't give 100% to everything.' And I say,… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“Charley threw Cindy on the bed and pulled a switchblade knife. He pressed the release button and a five-inch blade flipped open.… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
It's worth knowing that there's very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They're different things, particularly… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people… — Bert Lance Copy Share Image
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Mainstream media outlets and journalists act as agents of darkness, spreading fear and misinformation to please those in power. Their role is… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides.… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant.… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
