Journalism Quotes · Page 62

“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

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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ira Glass

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

— Nate Silver

“But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people…

— Samuel Selvon

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media…

— Danny Ainge

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and…

— Roone Arledge

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the…

— Larry King

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions…

— Joan Konner

When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want…

— Eddy Cue

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why…

— Jeff Zucker

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs…

— Heather Brooke

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that…

— E. W. Scripps

“This country prides itself on freedom of the press and went to war with England because you wanted religious freedom”

— Lin Wilder

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

— Thomas Griffith

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has…

— Lois Frankel

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

— Will Muschamp

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

— John Caples

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

— Karl Kraus

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

— Jimmy Wales

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

— Taylor Momsen

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask…

— Jose Saramago

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,

— James Risen

“As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to…

— BubbaHarold

Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

— Jay Leno

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

— Nick Denton

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

— Anonymous

I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

— Ray Guy

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

— Keith Jackson

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the…

— Samantha Power

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous…

— Anonymous

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be…

— Bill Moyers

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

— William Kristol