Journalism Quotes · Page 71

“The stories understandably frightened the public, and those fears encouraged more media coverage, the basic mechanism of an availability cascade.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Had it not been for the emergence of OTT platforms, Kaafir' would still be a story on papers.

— Mohit Raina

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all…

— Neil Young

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick…

— Conan O'Brien

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

— Jeremy Strong

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

— David Ignatius

I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing…

— Anna Quindlen

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th…

— John Lennon

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a…

— Marge Piercy

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls…

— Helen Keller

I feel like most media brands in the States, as far as news brands, are heavily slanted to the left or the…

— Ti West

“and negative people I know. For myself, I opted several years ago not to watch, read, or listen to what others call…

— Will Bowen

I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect -…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman

Every exchange between reporters and officials is important - that's why every State press briefing is put into the archives.

— Katie Pavlich

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

— Todd Young

The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

— Kevin Drum

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism,…

— Tom Brokaw

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than…

— Peter Bergen

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.

— Andrew Neil

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as…

— Anthony Fantano

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us…

— Shahid Afridi

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

— N. Bhaskara Rao

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and…

— Scott Glenn

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

— Prince Philip

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

— Katharine Viner

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

— Al Gore

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

— Ted Turner

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

— Joseph Goebbels

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if…

— Upton Sinclair

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far…

— Thomas Carlyle

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times,…

— John Malkovich

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

— Martin Bashir

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

— Frank Rich

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what…

— Judy Woodruff