Journalism Quotes · Page 114

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

— David Rakoff

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

— Lily Tomlin

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen…

— Errol Morris

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

— Thomas Jefferson

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

— Dervla Kirwan

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

— John Caples

News outlets have become like social media. They're not telling the whole story.

— B-Real

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

— Charles A. Dana

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to…

— Sheri Fink

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the…

— Isaac D'Israeli

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but…

— Ben Bradlee

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the…

— Parker Conrad

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat…

— Sebastian Junger

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was…

— Colum McCann

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes…

— Clay Shirky

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to…

— Stevie Nicks

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from…

— Tom Brokaw

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

— Thomas Jefferson

An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."

— John Caples

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

— David Shuster

Admittedly I agreed with Rupert Murdoch that 'Page 3' is 'old fashioned' and the removal based on that is plausible, but surely…

— Keeley Hazell

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers…

— Roger Mudd

The moment you talk about 26/11, everything is jingoistic. Even a TV debate sounds jingoistic and that's because emotions on the incident…

— Kabir Khan

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

— Julian Assange

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

— Larry Wilmore

“While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I’m optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in…

— George Brock

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to…

— Naomi Wolf

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has…

— Kirstie Alley

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -…

— Robert Darnton

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

— Charles Ferguson

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

— Ron Fournier

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

— Marianne Faithfull

The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

— Cenk Uygur

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

— Maria Ressa

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

— Roger Ailes

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you…

— Daniel Craig

“What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World.…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

— Ari Marcopoulos

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the…

— Dick Gregory