Journalism Quotes · Page 70

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

— John Byrne

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

— Walter Cronkite

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

— Kellyanne Conway

I know better than to ever attempt to get a reporter removed from covering any topic. That would never be an option.

— Stephanie Grisham

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone…

— Andrew Sullivan

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest…

— Anthony Weiner

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I…

— Wilfried Zaha

I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through…

— Tim Hecker

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long…

— Shashi Tharoor

“But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals.…

— G.K. Chesterton

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and…

— Alan Alda

Anytime you see somebody get hurt in this country and it's on television, and it seems unfair... I hope every human being…

— Cris Collinsworth

The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last…

— Michelle Malkin

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as…

— Mark Shields

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in…

— Mark Twain

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it…

— Ryan Holiday

With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine…

— Roy Choi

I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.

— Ryan Holiday

Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it,…

— Ted Olson

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into…

— Auberon Waugh

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

— Milan Kundera

I was the first reporter in the country to get a U.S. Senator on the air during the 9/11 attacks - I…

— Ed Schultz

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by…

— Robert Redford

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

— Richard S. Salant

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that…

— Brandon Collier

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

— Anthony Holden

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

— Avril Lavigne

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

— Margarita Simonyan

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is…

— Robert Redford

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the…

— Michael Shellenberger

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Alexander Cockburn

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

— Harold Evans

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

— A. J. Liebling

“journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Most”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

— Nick Denton

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

— David Muir

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in…

— Carl Hiaasen