Journalism Quotes · Page 87

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even…

— Paul Beatty

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started…

— Ted Turner

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

— Maria Shriver

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always…

— Maureen Dowd

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

— Warren Christopher

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

— Dana Perino

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it…

— John Prendergast

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges'…

— Walter Karp

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people…

— Hugo Black

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot…

— Owen King

Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the…

— Om Malik

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost…

— Brit Hume

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary…

— C. P. Scott

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a…

— Bill Vaughan

I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are…

— Donald Rumsfeld

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

— Ronald Frame

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no…

— Walter Cronkite

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

— Chris Wallace

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

— PJ Harvey

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

— David Brooks

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

— Maureen Dowd

“The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.”

— Lance Morcan

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice…

— John M. Ford

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

— Michael Pollan

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can…

— Anne Lamott

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'

— Tucker Carlson

“How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers…

— Anna Politkovskaya

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and…

— Jennifer Lee

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

— John King

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

— Donald Trump

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to

— Helen Swaffer

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

— Julian Assange

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

— Henry R. Luce

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

— Scott Weiland

There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.

— Norman Pearlstine

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after…

— Fab Moretti

I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

— Michelle Gielan