Journalism Quotes · Page 38

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

— Phil Donahue

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

— Andrew Marr

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

— Janet Malcolm

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

— Jack Kelly

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

— Al Gore

The press is our chief ideological weapon. -Nikita Khrushchev

— Call Of Duty

The men up on the news. They try to tell us all that we will lose. But it's so easy in this…

— Lorde

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

— Terry Pratchett

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you…

— Brad Listi

“the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.”

— Judith C. Waller

“I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in…

— William T. Sherman

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

— Ira Glass

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

— Noam Chomsky

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more…

— Bernie Sanders

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and…

— Neil Gaiman

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a…

— Joseph Addison

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told…

— Neil Kinnock

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran.…

— Gregg Easterbrook

“As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be…

— George Orwell

The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made…

— Shane Smith

I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's…

— Ravi Zacharias

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

— Tom Holt

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

— Roger Ross Williams

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

— Iris Chang

It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.

— Russell Howard

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

— Jedediah Bila

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

— Bob Woodward

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

— Tina Yothers

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

— Robert Crumb

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

— Bill Moyers

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

— Marlin Fitzwater

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

— Roger Ailes

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

— Ted Turner

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

— Carl Lewis

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

— Michael Crichton