Journalism Quotes · Page 108

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the…

— Peter Gabriel

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

— Dan Rather

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free.”

— Timothy Snyder

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

— Hank Azaria

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to…

— David Brooks

As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize…

— Frank Spotnitz

Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the…

— Rutger Bregman

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking…

— Tom Wolfe

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they…

— Regina Brett

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible…

— Anthony Holden

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that…

— Vince Vaughn

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up…

— John McCarthy

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to…

— David Riesman

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

— Charles Revson

We were under scrutiny when Stephen became rich and famous. The media were in the house, and camera leads were absolutely everywhere…

— Jane Hawking

“The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.”

— Ron Chernow

The media attention does not bother me. I am very happy that the media is at least interested in sports other than…

— Geeta Phogat

“We plaster our news reports with political pundits not offering independent opinions but serving their masters.”

— Sharyl Attkisson

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody…

— Bill Maher

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

— Bill O'Reilly

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what…

— Diane Sawyer

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

— David Cross

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

— Miuccia Prada

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

— Tom Brokaw

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep…

— Eleanor Mondale

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

— Oscar Wilde

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since…

— Jemele Hill

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell…

— John Gunther

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press…

— Kat Timpf

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

— David Shuster

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

— Dave Brat

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness…

— Michael Jackson

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

— Jeremy Scahill

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

— Nicholas D. Kristof

You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.

— Anderson Cooper

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

— Yao Ming