Journalism Quotes · Page 42

I love the media, I live with the media.

— Ian Somerhalder

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

— John Major

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

— Al Gore

I don't like all this talking in the press.

— Vitali Klitschko

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

— Lindsey Graham

Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.

— Peter Bergen

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

— Naga Chaitanya

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

— Ana Kasparian

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing…

— Andrew Marr

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

— Dan Rather

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

— Lawrence Wright

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no…

— Branford Marsalis

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

— Amy Goodman

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And…

— Noam Chomsky

You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon…

— Bernard Ingham

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my…

— Bethany Hamilton

“A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when…

— Pete Dexter

I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them…

— Michael Glawogger

It’s becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that’s…

— James Morcan

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world…

— Jeff Britting

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's…

— William Cowper

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

— Claud Cockburn

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

— Richard Cobden

Man, I'm pretty spoiled in San Antonio. I don't do media every day.

— LaMarcus Aldridge

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

— Anonymous

Journalism is the entertainment business.

— Frank Herbert

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

— Jenny Zhang

Talking to the press is not always good.

— John Dickerson

A journalist is stimulated by adeadline. He writes worse when he has time.

— Anonymous

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

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

— Danielle Campbell

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

— JoAnn Ross

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