Journalism Quotes · Page 85

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

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

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

— Jodi Kantor

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

— George Steiner

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

— Patrick Chappatte

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

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Jon Ronson

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think talk radio belongs to conservatives now after the last 20, 30 years of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, my colleagues at…

— Sebastian Gorka

Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget…

— Greg Gutfeld

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers…

— Tony Snow

“A former news reporter, I worked for numerous outlets including dailies, weeklies and magazines, primarily in the Sarasota/Bradenton, Florida area. Fiction is…

— Linda Harrington

“You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical…

— Edith Wharton

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort…

— Jann Wenner

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— David Letterman

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

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

— Margaret Brennan

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

— William Randolph Hearst

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

— Roger Ailes

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

— Stig Dagerman

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

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

— Osborn Elliott

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how…

— Lydia Polgreen

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites,…

— Jason Alexander

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar…

— David Folkenflik

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,…

— Frank Zappa

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have…

— Princess Diana

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

— Maria Ressa

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

— Erik Larson

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

The world of the media has grown so big that everybody has to attach themselves with it.

— Narendra Modi

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

— Simon Sinek

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

— Willie Stargell

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Usually I don't pay attention to the media, because a lot of it is just opinion.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

— Jesse Watters

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

— Diana Ross