Journalism Quotes · Page 128

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

— Troy Aikman

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where…

— John Stossel

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

— Noam Chomsky

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national…

— Peter King

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

— John Dewey

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly news magazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double…

— Eric Alterman

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

— Newt Gingrich

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being…

— Tony DiCicco

The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print.…

— Norman Pearlstine

Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting…

— Tina Fey

“Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories…

— Mitch Albom

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from…

— Julia Gillard

“Today conservatism has arrived in that dark place. Even as American journalism lurches palpably to the right, the best-selling right-wing media critics…

— Thomas Frank

As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger……

— Samantha Power

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of,…

— Nick Denton

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

— Ilana Mercer

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from…

— Mark Twain

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

— Hugo Black

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

— Kevin Nealon

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

— Michael Franti

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in…

— Samantha Bee

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without…

— Richard Patrick

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for…

— John Oliver

My experience of the press has always been one of fear. They make me nervous and scared.

— Ulrika Jonsson

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

“If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose…

— Ian Hargreaves

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

— Jacque Fresco

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything…

— Rush Limbaugh

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

— Jack Benny

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

— David Simon

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their…

— Michael Gartner

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

— Jonathan Miles

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

— Kathy Acker

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

— Dan Rather

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

— Amy Goodman

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and…

— Andy Samberg

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually…

— Kal Penn

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday…

— Drew Busby