Journalism Quotes · Page 120

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron…

— Jake Tapper

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

— Karl Rove

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

— Gene Weingarten

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

— Joey Skaggs

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

— Johnny Depp

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of…

— Malcolm Lowry

“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made…

— G.K. Chesterton

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one…

— Warren Ellis

I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long…

— Tom Brokaw

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all,…

— Jet Li

“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is…

— David Denby

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not…

— Ellen Goodman

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting,…

— Walter Lippmann

“It took Read some twenty years of searching to nail the matter down, but thanks to his efforts we now know that…

— Bill Bryson

The Court's objection to cameras may be much more a product of history and process than an unwillingness to be placed in…

— David Stras

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news.…

— Mike Birbiglia

I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.

— Molly Ivins

I'm out, and I'm a columnist at The Post, an anchor at MSNBC and a contributor to 'PBS NewsHour.'

— Jonathan Capehart

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time…

— Katy Tur

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

— Evan Bayh

Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.

— Charles Foster Johnson

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

— A. J. Liebling

I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world…

— Carl Honore

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

— Jacques Ellul

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper…

— Constance Zimmer

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

— Megan Fox

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

— Glenn Greenwald

Let's just be honest about it, there are many, many news agencies out there that are not fair and balanced.

— Mark Robinson

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

— Parker Conrad

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

— Mike Jackson

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or…

— Joel Edgerton

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

— Robert Draper

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

— Glenn Beck

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

— George Hamilton

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and…

— Paul Fussell

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price…

— Nick Cohen