Journalism Quotes · Page 88

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for…

— John Oliver

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from…

— Mark Twain

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

— Newt Gingrich

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

— Ilana Mercer

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

— Jack Benny

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything…

— Rush Limbaugh

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

“If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose…

— Ian Hargreaves

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like…

— Sarah Lacy

“This is not a small matter. According to a recent poll conducted by the Freedom Forum, a liberal foundation in Tennessee, 89…

— David Horowitz

“A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use…

— Gunter Grass

It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more…

— Bill Moyers

The advertiser's logotype at the bottom of the ad can be considered as part of the headline. After reading the headline, the…

— John Caples

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and…

— Jim McKay

I'm sick of pundits. Don't get me wrong. I love the guests I have on every day. I love their energy and…

— Brooke Baldwin

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

— Jacque Fresco

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'

— Leah Pipes

I'll tell you what, our media is indeed sick and its making our country sick, and we're going to stop it.

— Donald Trump

Absolutely everything that has been reported about me in Spanish media is wrong.

— Martin Odegaard

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I…

— Benjamin Booker

Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like…

— Emily Yoffe

“Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media’s tiny time…

— Haruki Murakami

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

— Rita Rudner

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

— Hunter S. Thompson

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

— Jann Wenner

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

— Charles Oakley

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

— Shane Smith

I moved from current affairs to daily news over the Asia crisis of 1998 - mainly because the news agenda demanded I…

— Emily Maitlis

“The media constantly reinforces the message that what is demanded of us is unwavering strength, poise and diplomacy even in the face…

— The Washington Post Shanon Lee

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go…

— Helen Thomas

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

— Katharine Gun

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

— Tammy Faye Bakker

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

— Herbert Bayard Swope

“Beware of pro-government media in your country, because it doesn’t open your eyes, it just makes you blind!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame…

— Anderson Cooper

I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another.

— Jim Acosta

Earlier, there used to be one newspaper, one radio and TV channel with news once a day but now it is 24…

— Sanjay Mishra

I don't think the press in England will ever change. It's something that people in the spotlight have to live with.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen