Journalism Quotes · Page 118

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what…

— Katia Winter

“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.”

— Leslie Cockburn

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

— Anonymous

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

— Curt Weldon

“What do news services get rated on anyhow, how many times they can use the word fear?”

— Teri Louise Kelly

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

— Christina Aguilera

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

— Marguerite Duras

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

— Walter Cronkite

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I…

— Will McDonough

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound…

— Malcolm Turnbull

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is…

— Floyd Abrams

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to…

— Ben Bradlee

It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the…

— Nick Denton

Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And…

— Megyn Kelly

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

— Katie Couric

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian…

— Alvin Adams

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also…

— Joanna Coles

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

— Hubert Burda

It doesn't matter what the FBI says. The New York Times is that big a bible for people on the left.

— Rush Limbaugh

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out…

— Harold Evans

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or…

— Andrew Vachss

“Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

— Michael Pollan

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing.…

— Robert Kardashian

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not…

— Frank Bruni

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as…

— Laura Lippman

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

— Jon Rappoport

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

— Rand Paul

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

— David Frum

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

— Paul Weyrich

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

— Caroline Polachek

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

— Nick Clegg

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

— Rukmini Maria Callimachi

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

— Vince McMahon

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

— Betty Friedan

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and…

— Walter Cronkite

It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of…

— Demis Roussos