Journalism Quotes · Page 68

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

— Philip K. Dick

Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.

— Ken Livingstone

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it.…

— Evelyn Waugh

We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential…

— Margarita Simonyan

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.

— Zach Braff

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who…

— Dan Rather

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

— Noam Chomsky

One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to…

— Hark-Joon Lee

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where…

— Bob Woodward

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize…

— Anonymous

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political…

— Gretchen Rubin

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities…

— David Halberstam

In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district…

— Kevin Barry

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of…

— Joe Klein

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That…

— Toby Young

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a…

— Andrew Vachss

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption…

— Charles Bradley

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they…

— Vicky McClure

In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report [terrorists attacks].They have their reasons, and you understand that.

— Donald Trump

We tune in to news companies for them to give us some sense of grounded assessment of what the truth is.

— Sam Seder

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

— Dave Barry

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

— Lauren Mayberry

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about…

— Mark Twain

I believe there should be enforcement and redevelopment of anti-trust laws that fully regulate the media.

— Sam Seder

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

— F. Lee Bailey

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out…

— James Nesbitt

“In Hell, we get all of the news that happens here. Like CNN – twenty four hours a day, every fucking day.”

— M.F. Hopkins

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

— Joel Osteen

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

— Ana Kasparian

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're…

— Barbara Boxer

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

— Helmut Schmidt

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with…

— William Safire

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved…

— Anne Robinson

A news paper seems more intresting when . . . The person sitting next to you is reading it...

— Green Monk

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

— Robert Scheer

I don't think anywhere you go to get news is news anymore. It is commentary, but mostly it is the advancement of…

— Rush Limbaugh

“There is no room for passion in journalism—unless it is a passion for presenting the truth. Accurately, honestly, and unbiased.”

— M.J. Summers