Journalism Quotes · Page 121

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

— Ann Coulter

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

— Michael Arrington

Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They dont know…

— Stephen Colbert

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly…

— David Remnick

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap…

— Jonathan Alter

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

— Gloria Emerson

As a media consultant to Republican presidents, Ailes proved a deft manipulator of racial fear. But it was in building Fox News…

— Joy Reid

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its…

— Edward Bok

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show…

— Ted Koppel

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less…

— David Brock

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to…

— Bill Keller

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be…

— Madonna Ciccone

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to…

— Mark McKinnon

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more…

— Joseph Alsop

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of…

— Andrew Neil

Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it's more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to…

— Steve Bannon

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

— Sahndra Fon Dufe

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

— Orji Uzor Kalu

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

— Ainsley Earhardt

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

— Jim Harrison

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

— David Duchovny

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

— Joni Mitchell

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

— Rod Lurie

This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often…

— Bernie Sanders

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

— Sharon Stone

I've written on football at the Guardian, American football, obviously. I've also written on weather at The Guardian.

— Harry Enten

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

— Jose Rizal

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

— Chris Hughes

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet…

— Pat Oliphant

We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media

— Christy Haubegger

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

— David Brock

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

— Paul Weyrich

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting…

— Zooey Deschanel

The truth is that every news channel is a variant of the other and the difference is one of degree.

— Barkha Dutt

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized.

— Sharyl Attkisson

I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break…

— Jill Stein

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

— Rebekah Brooks

The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm…

— Marko Arnautovic