Journalism Quotes · Page 103

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter.

— Michael Wolff

“In every newspaper-office in America the same struggle between the business-office and the news-department is going on all the time.”

— Upton Sinclair

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

— John McAfee

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.

— Glenne Headly

Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.

— Jacob Weisberg

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

— Linda Chavez

So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by…

— Seth Godin

One of the reasons my husband and I connect is our shared value of service. It's why he went off to West…

— Brianna Keilar

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about…

— Dana Priest

“Outrage porn": rather than report on real stories and real issues, the media find it much easier (and more profitable) to find…

— Mark Manson

The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not…

— Nat Hentoff

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets…

— Anthony Fauci

I've done a lot of investigative reporting, and I've confronted a lot of people over the years, sometimes in dark, foreign places.…

— Chris Hansen

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

— Nathan Myhrvold

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

— John Selden

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

— Scott Eastwood

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

— Ted Rall

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

— Yao Ming

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

— Arianna Huffington

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

— Harold MacMillan

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

— Mike Cernovich

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

— Stephanie Grisham

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

— Ken Livingstone

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

— Craig Brown

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

— John F. Kennedy

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

— Gene Weingarten

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they…

— Daniel Lyons

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

— Calvin Trillin

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

— Colin Powell

The great majority of the things the press has written have been highly inaccurate about myself.

— Ken Wahl

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

— Fred W. Friendly

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

— Robert Horry

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the…

— John Pilger

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.

— Alistair Overeem

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness…

— Hodding Carter

If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced,…

— Stacey Dooley