Journalism Quotes · Page 124

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

— Ari Fleischer

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

— Sarah Palin

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

— Benjamin Cohen

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

— Grace Kelly

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Berita mudah sekali punah, tapi feature bisa disimpan berhari, berminggu, atau berbulan-bulan.”

— Goenawan Mohamad

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

— Marisa Tomei

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

— Paul Virilio

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there.…

— Ralph Steadman

The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair…

— Lou Dobbs

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands…

— Joseph Prince

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story,…

— Abi Morgan

Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's…

— Jonathan S. Tobin

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Look, when you're in the public life you have to understand, the press - good bad or indifferent - is going to…

— Michael Capuano

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the…

— Fred Barnes

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and…

— Dylan Moran

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

— Sebastian Junger

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working…

— Ben Bradlee

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.

— Thomas Pynchon

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

— Toby Young

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

— Tony Benn

Journalists aren't known for their courage so much as their belief that there is safety in crowds.

— Mollie Hemingway

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they…

— Ryan Grim

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

— Laurence Shames

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

— Anonymous

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is…

— Tucker Carlson

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

— Mathias Dopfner

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

— Josh Marshall

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

— Hugo Black

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

— Marilyn Manson

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

— Frank Zappa

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust…

— PJ Harvey

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the…

— Donald Trump

I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.

— Neal Brennan

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to…

— Donald Rumsfeld

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

— Ana Kasparian

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing…

— Rachel McAdams

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

— Michael Arrington