Journalism Quotes · Page 92

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

— Martin Bashir

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

— Frank Rich

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far…

— Thomas Carlyle

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times,…

— John Malkovich

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if…

— Upton Sinclair

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

— Joseph Goebbels

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

— Ted Turner

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

— Jessica Savitch

Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly…

— Nora Ephron

I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I…

— Julia Hartz

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to…

— Tony Auth

More and more, that's where everybody's getting their news. You turn on your news in the morning, you're doing other things, but…

— Alisyn Camerota

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity…

— Carl Bernstein

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and…

— Hugo Black

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly…

— Richard Grenell

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in…

— Robert Faurisson

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.

— John Waters

The printed press does not show the reporter asking the question. What is peculiar to television is that the intrusiveness is part…

— Anonymous

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

— Reese Schonfeld

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

— Michelle Malkin

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

— N. Bhaskara Rao

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us…

— Shahid Afridi

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as…

— Anthony Fantano

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

— Al Gore

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

— Katharine Viner

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

— Prince Philip

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and…

— Scott Glenn

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism,…

— Tom Brokaw

The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

— Kevin Drum

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

— Todd Young

Every exchange between reporters and officials is important - that's why every State press briefing is put into the archives.

— Katie Pavlich

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

— David Ignatius

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.

— Andrew Neil

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than…

— Peter Bergen

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

— David Muir

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in…

— Carl Hiaasen