Journalism Quotes · Page 78

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

— Mick Rock

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

— Guy Kawasaki

“‪Whatever Mainstream Media focuses on, BEWARE. Whatever Mainstream Media ignores, FOCUS.‬”

— Sotero M Lopez II

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

— Kristen Welker

“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.”

— Leslie Cockburn

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

— Anonymous

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

— Curt Weldon

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what…

— Katia Winter

But political parties must claim to be radically different from one another, and political journalism must play along, or else why exist?…

— Neil Macdonald

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism…

— James D'arcy

“A veteran reporter knows there is a disconnect between how an event in a region is experienced and the way it is…

— Kyo Maclear

“When I accepted an internship at DV8, I knew it wasn’t going to lead to a Pulitzer. The network isn’t what you’d…

— Gina Damico

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural…

— Glenn Greenwald

I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a…

— Selena Gomez

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure…

— Howard Dean

I think we're more relevant than ever because it is such a noisy environment out there. What's a journalist now? It's anybody…

— Lester Holt

The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based…

— Howard Stern

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

— Katie Couric

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian…

— Alvin Adams

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also…

— Joanna Coles

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

— Marguerite Duras

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

— Walter Cronkite

“What do news services get rated on anyhow, how many times they can use the word fear?”

— Teri Louise Kelly

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

— Christina Aguilera

“Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

— Michael Pollan

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or…

— Andrew Vachss

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

— Hubert Burda

It doesn't matter what the FBI says. The New York Times is that big a bible for people on the left.

— Rush Limbaugh

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out…

— Harold Evans

Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool…

— Pete Seeger

“When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?”

— T. Rafael Cimino

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and…

— Bernie Sanders

Tucker Carlson has the new seven p.m. show on Fox and right now it may be the most interesting and engaging show.

— Rush Limbaugh

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on…

— Brianna Wu

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

— Edward Klein

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust…

— Billy Tauzin

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

— Zadie Smith