Journalism Quotes · Page 22

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

— Yahya Jammeh

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

— Julian Assange

I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.

— Ted Lieu

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

— Joe Berlinger

'The News Quiz' is one of the things I am proudest of in my professional life.

— Sandi Toksvig

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

— Bill Keller

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

— Patti Smith

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles…

— Ari Melber

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way…

— John Hodgman

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after…

— Joe Scarborough

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

— Eric Alterman

The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.

— Varg Vikernes

“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s…

— Ali Smith

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

— Joseph Heller

“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few…

— Linda Harvey

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its…

— David Hepworth

There's a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don't fall in…

— Sharyl Attkisson

I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I…

— Anne Sebba

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television…

— Carlisle Floyd

I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas…

— Biz Stone

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the…

— David Edelstein

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And…

— Robert McChesney

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

— Placido Domingo

I am interested in the press and what they do.

— Cornelia Parker

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

— Katharine Gun

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

— Karl Kraus

I got my start as a journalist, talking to actual market participants.

— Lina Khan

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

— Nelson Mandela

Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.

— Michael Rapaport

I am not a tabloid guy. I don't want to be in the papers.

— Naughty Boy

Shepard Smith has frequently been the lone voice of reason on Fox News.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I hate controversies and want to be in the news for the right reasons.

— Kunal Khemu

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

— Lionel Trilling

“It was electric. It was journalism. And it was spectacular. We were all in.”

— Megyn Kelly

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

— Mary Hart

“Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.”

— Anonymous

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

— Elizabeth Drew