Journalism Quotes · Page 131

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many…

— Big Boi

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the…

— Paul Virilio

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was…

— Michael Pena

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first…

— Dave Barry

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

— Adam Michnik

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people…

— Jamie Cullum

I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you look at Drudge and if you see headlines that portend the end of the world tomorrow, don't click on it.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information…

— Jonathan Demme

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity,…

— Celeste Ng

We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this…

— Sean Hannity

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on…

— Mike Wallace

For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out…

— Andrew Breitbart

“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put…

— Noam Chomsky

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant.…

— Michael Kinsley

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been…

— Fareed Zakaria

I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers,…

— Nicholas Kristof

People can say the media stuff drains you and everything, but you set everything up accordingly to the schedule.

— Aljamain Sterling

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

— Carol Burnett

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

— Courtney A. Kemp

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you…

— Anne Applebaum

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

— Tom Petty

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

— Thabo Mbeki

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

— Eric Sevareid

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

— Louise Linton

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint,…

— Roger Ailes

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

— Freeman Dyson

Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported…

— Conan O'Brien

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the…

— Ross Douthat

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's…

— Michael Hastings

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

— William Raspberry

“When word gets out you’re in here, the press’ll be all over this place like stretch marks on a ninth-street lap dancer.”

— Anonymous

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

— Bobby Brown

There are far too many journalists who are in a rush to be first, instead of being right.

— Ed Henry

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

— Ray Dalio

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

— Garrett Graff