Journalism Quotes · Page 106

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

— Janine di Giovanni

A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for…

— Fiona Barton

Clearly, children need to be aware of the news and current affairs. I buy my own children a children's newspaper so they…

— Katie Hopkins

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the…

— David Ogilvy

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

— Ryan Holiday

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to…

— Viktor Vekselberg

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

— Barton Gellman

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

— Charlie Brooker

I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class…

— Mark Leibovich

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Liberals habitually work themselves into a lather about the antics of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, but they are really just political…

— Mike Lofgren

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the…

— Peter York

We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because…

— Jon Stewart

I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our…

— Matthew Desmond

I really understand journalism and this world. I won't lie to you, sometimes it's difficult receiving the same answers, having the same…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to…

— Bernice King

I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the…

— Ben Howard

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

— Roger Ailes

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course…

— Masha Gessen

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

— Bill Gates

“I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper,…

— David Liss

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

— Anderson Cooper

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

— Upton Sinclair

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

— Andrew Zimmern

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

— Cecil B. DeMille

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

— Frank Miller

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

— Claire Fox

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

— Kevin Richardson

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

— John Gutfreund

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

— Morgan Neville

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,

— William Bastone

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

— Mark Twain

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

— Thomas Jefferson

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of…

— Russell Baker

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in…

— Eric Sevareid

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

— Wolf Blitzer

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

— George Packer

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

— Seth MacFarlane

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

— Maria Ressa

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

— Rachel Zoe