Journalism Quotes · Page 50

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

— Steven Pinker

“When you have fallen by the road side, the media do not offer a helping hand”

— Sean Smith

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

— Dave Barry

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

— Ajit Pai

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

— Megyn Kelly

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

— Bill O'Reilly

“The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.”

— Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news.

— Sinead O'Connor

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.

— Dagen McDowell

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

— William Finnegan

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

— Nora Ephron

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be,…

— Rob Lowe

People don't want to hear the news anymore; they more worry about celebrity scandal, gossip. The news doesn't have to be truthful…

— Emanuel Sebastiao

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where…

— Kate Adie

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any…

— Neil Postman

“I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.”

— Adam Roberts

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing…

— Maria Bartiromo

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...…

— Thomas Jefferson

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and…

— Howell Raines

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration…

— Harold Evans

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a…

— John Updike

“Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers? I'm sure I have no in-depth comprehension of American villany; yet I…

— John Irving

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to…

— Irving Kristol

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

— Robert Christgau

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

— George W. Bush

I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.

— Ted Lieu

'The News Quiz' is one of the things I am proudest of in my professional life.

— Sandi Toksvig

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

— Joe Berlinger

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

— Bill Keller

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

— Katharine Gun

I am interested in the press and what they do.

— Cornelia Parker

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

— Placido Domingo

I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I've ever met.

— Donald Trump

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

— Yahya Jammeh

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

— Kellyanne Conway

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

— Phil Jones