Journalism Quotes · Page 74

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

— Miranda Otto

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

— Jack Paar

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is…

— Paul Krugman

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

— James Ellroy

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to…

— Robert Motherwell

I think I have a serious problem---Today I was reading the newspaper and found myself looking for the Like button.

— Hussein Nishah

For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out…

— Andrew Breitbart

We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this…

— Sean Hannity

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on…

— Mike Wallace

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when…

— Nat Hentoff

Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer…

— Studs Terkel

“For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That…

— Alastair Campbell

The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides.…

— Ted Gup

My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where…

— George Weigel

“More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its…

— Amy Goodman

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.

— Trey Gowdy

If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

— Scott Adams

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

— Elliott Abrams

As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.

— Margaret Brennan

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

— Will Rogers

The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind…

— David Letterman

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.”

— Jon Ronson

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

— Osborn Elliott

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the…

— Ken Livingstone

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

— Stig Dagerman

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

— Roger Ailes

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

— William Randolph Hearst

It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let…

— Cenk Uygur

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

— Lachlan Murdoch

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

— Cokie Roberts

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

— Garrison Keillor

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

— Patrick Chappatte

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

— George Steiner

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

— Jodi Kantor

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

— Walter Cronkite

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

— Lewis H. Lapham