Journalism Quotes · Page 66

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

— Mehcad Brooks

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

— Leslie Cockburn

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

— Jessica Savitch

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

— Michael Wolff

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching…

— Ben Hecht

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

— Margarita Simonyan

I hear women say, 'It's so hard to be a working parent because you can't give 100% to everything.' And I say,…

— Alisyn Camerota

Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen…

— Zia Haider Rahman

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how…

— Graydon Carter

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look…

— Val Kilmer

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you…

— Scott Pelley

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once,…

— Charles Bukowski

You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped…

— Sophia Myles

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected…

— Raquel Cassidy

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.

— John Caples

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

— Freeman Dyson

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us…

— George Wallace

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and…

— Walter Lippmann

I don't watch television news and, so, whatever I know is from online snippets released by various channels.

— Barkha Dutt

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just…

— Bashar al-Assad

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just…

— Jim Norton

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to…

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm sure it's not that in-depth as to what it's going to do. It's more probably tabloid talk.

— Tim Howard

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

— Ezra Koenig

“Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!”

— Colin Falconer

The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than…

— Nick Manning

The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and…

— George W. Bush

The press has become so [word missing] about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice.

— Donald Trump

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their…

— Jason Calacanis

“If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

— Martina Navratilova

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories…

— Matt Taibbi

I swapped my neighbor's newspaper with last years newspaper from the same date. He didn't even notice!

— Green Monk

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

— Katy Tur

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

— Amala Paul

Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.

— Barkha Dutt