Journalism Quotes · Page 96

“Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph…

— Adolph S. Ochs

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of…

— Ann Coulter

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

— Mercedes Schlapp

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

— Ludwig von Mises

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

— Daniel Levitin

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

— Gillian Flynn

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I…

— Juan Williams

“Not only does the media fail to challenge our preconceptions - instead reinforcing them as media outlets try to cater to smaller…

— Charles Seife

“Wetheridge said he had been chased all over the Club that morning by an infernal photographer fellow, and that one got no…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But…

— Henry Rollins

Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would…

— Ben Domenech

The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of…

— Lyn Nofziger

So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask…

— Monty Williams

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity,…

— Roger Ailes

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through…

— Oriana Fallaci

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

— Tony Benn

“We live in a world where people wait for the Media to tell them who they are, and what they should be…

— Mitta Xinindlu

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell…

— Jeannette Walls

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

— Princess Diana

“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”

— David Burr Gerrard

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they…

— John Caples

“At a time when the words 'fake' and 'news' are being paired together, "Radio Okapi Kindu" honors journalism and the importance it…

— Jennifer Bakody

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political…

— Jill Abramson

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid…

— Glenn Greenwald

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

— Shami Chakrabarti

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

— Sucheta Dalal

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

— Chris Powell

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

— Jesse Helms

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

— Ben Bradlee

I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism…

— Katy Tur

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

— Ken Cuccinelli

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are…

— Roger Ailes

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

— Bob Schieffer

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I…

— Tabitha Soren