Journalism Quotes · Page 64

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out…

— Jeff Zucker

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

— Brianna Wu

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be…

— Scott Pelley

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the…

— Elton John

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

— Megyn Kelly

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

— John King

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

— Colin Flaherty

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;…

— Dan Rather

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the…

— Howard Brenton

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find…

— Samuel Johnson

I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people…

— Lydia Polgreen

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The trenchant editorials plus the keen rivalry natural to extremely partisan papers made it necessary for the editors to be expert pugilists…

— Anonymous

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers…

— Wadah Khanfar

I'm tired of getting made fun of. The reason I took on The New York Times as ferociously as I did is…

— Geraldo Rivera

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots…

— David Attenborough

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

— Barbara Boxer

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in…

— Bob Hawke

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

— Richard Flanagan

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…

— Max Weber

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

— Bill Kovach

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of…

— Bill Moyers

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

— Gayle Gardner

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations...

— George Orwell

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde…

— Gretchen Carlson

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

— Jemele Hill

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

— Edward James Olmos

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

— Joe Klein

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they…

— Dave Barry

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

— Masego

“A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.”

— Andy Zaltzman

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen…

— Kenny Chesney

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people…

— Frank Zappa

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

— Andrew Breitbart

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one…

— Jim Bishop