A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It used to be, if you were a reporter, you wrote a story and then you moved on to the next one.… — Dean Baquet Copy Share Image
The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any… — John Cole Copy Share Image
I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media has lost its monopoly. They have lost the opportunity they had to define what's news and what isn't news. They… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity,… — M. William Phelps Copy Share Image
It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as… — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does… — Eugen Richter Copy Share Image
When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 - "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree… — Eddie Pepitone Copy Share Image
Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments,… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption.… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
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