Journalism Quotes · Page 97

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

— David Talbot

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

— Marilyn vos Savant

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

— Kara Swisher

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

— Tina Brown

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

— Bruce Jackson

Imagine what you could do if you had the ability to broadcast live video from anywhere, anytime. It changes the way news…

— Justin Kan

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

— Michiko Kakutani

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get…

— Graham Linehan

There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will…

— Karan Mahajan

By describing the origins of the coronavirus as a conspiracy theory and placing it right beside Sandy Hook trutherism. The left, the…

— Will Cain

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right…

— Kara Swisher

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always…

— Al Jourgensen

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our…

— Dave Barry

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from…

— Pope Francis

I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties…

— Morgan Neville

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

— Matt Welch

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect…

— Norman Mailer

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

— George Weigel

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion.…

— Ani DiFranco

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

— Augusten Burroughs

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But…

— Alfredo Jaar

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

— Glenn Greenwald

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I…

— Lynn Coady

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

— Josh Allen

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

— Sam Smith

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

“We often knock politicians for refusing to admit error. But journalists appear equally reluctant to admit a mistake.”

— Anonymous

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers…

— Ferdinand Lassalle

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply…

— Naomi Wolf

Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does…

— Erick Erickson

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

— Anonymous

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

— Ian Hargreaves

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

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“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 covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

— John King

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 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