Journalism Quotes · Page 86

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to…

— Ian Poulter

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

— Marshall McLuhan

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

— Jennifer Aniston

I think that there are some in the media who have an overinflated view of their mission.

— Martha MacCallum

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

— Jimmy Breslin

The media is 15 minutes of my day, sometimes 30. So it's not the biggest thing to do. I'll answer the questions…

— Scottie Scheffler

The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the…

— Lachlan Murdoch

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

— John Oliver

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting…

— Walter Cronkite

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote…

— Michael Wolff

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing…

— George Bernard Shaw

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers…

— V. S. Naipaul

It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or,…

— Terry Gross

“If I could tell my colleagues in the media four things, they would be: 1.Everyone hates you. 2.No one is afraid of…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or…

— Bob Schaffer

Newspaper haters is a group of people that doesn't really exist, but, even if it did, it wouldn't be composed of people…

— Cord Jefferson

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

— Isabel Allende

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography…

— Jamelle Bouie

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

— Jane Eisner

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

— Christiane Amanpour

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

— Rick Bragg

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press…

— Connie Chung

I've learned I can't really affect or control what journalists write, so I just try my best to be transparent and answer…

— Michelle Wu

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story…

— Jack Ma

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

— Kevin Drum

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

— Jim Acosta

“So I’m in the American Secret Service? Damn.” “It was all reported in the press the next day.”

— Douglas Preston

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

— Cher Lloyd

I'm a news junkie. I generally ad lib it. I find a story I want to key off on, open the mic,…

— Neal Boortz

I think sometimes we lose sight of how powerful we are when we put someone on the news - for good or…

— Lester Holt

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

— Jim Hightower

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret,…

— Dave Eggers

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

— Karl Kraus

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

— Steven Holl

Cable news tends to be talking points - you don't have that much time to substantively unpack an issue.

— Margaret Hoover

“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

— Clay Shirky

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

— Rowan Williams

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding