Journalism Quotes · Page 113

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

— Paris Hilton

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

— Umberto Eco

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

— Barry Goldwater

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their…

— Bill Walsh

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

— Lucy Powell

“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.”

— Thomas Pynchon

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

“Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story,”

— Jeannette Walls

“The reason subscription (and RSS) was abandoned was because in a subscription economy the users are in control. In the on-off model,…

— Ryan Holiday

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that…

— Harry Browne

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position…

— Brit Hume

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing…

— Lucas Mann

I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a…

— Max Lucado

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who…

— Danny Glover

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there…

— Denis Johnson

I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to…

— Noam Chomsky

The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.

— Donald Trump

“But that’s the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn’t have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.”

— Daniel Silva

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover…

— Lil Wayne

Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a cafe and drinking coffee is as important…

— Atul Kulkarni

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do…

— Patrick Leahy

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

— Brooke Baldwin

I guess when I got to MSNBC in 2009, I brought Bernie Sanders to cable probably more than anybody else.

— Ed Schultz

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak…

— Craig Newmark

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

— Arianna Huffington

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

— James L. Brooks

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York…

— David Walton

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

— Bernard Baruch

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs…

— Karl Kraus

'Chip Away' is somewhat of a rail against cable news and divisive agendas... all for the almighty dollar.

— Duff McKagan

“(An astrologer of a London tabloid was once fired by means of a letter from his editor which began, “As you will…

— Christopher Hitchens

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

— Frank Zappa

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

— Corazon Aquino

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have…

— Mike Birbiglia

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

— Ana Kasparian

I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

— John Travolta

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

— Bob Woodward

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

— Rei Kawakubo

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

— Hope Solo

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown