Journalism Quotes · Page 59

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

— Elizabeth Drew

“Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.”

— Anonymous

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

— JoAnn Ross

A journalist is stimulated by adeadline. He writes worse when he has time.

— Anonymous

Talking to the press is not always good.

— John Dickerson

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

— Jenny Zhang

Journalism is the entertainment business.

— Frank Herbert

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

— Al Gore

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

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

— Mollie Hemingway

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

— Tony Benn

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

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

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

— Sarah Palin

“Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after…

— Douglas Brinkley

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

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

— Mark McKinnon

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

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

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

I don't like all this talking in the press.

— Vitali Klitschko

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

— John Major

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

— Naga Chaitanya

Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.

— Peter Bergen

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

— Lindsey Graham

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

— Richard Cobden

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

— Claud Cockburn

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

— Anonymous

Man, I'm pretty spoiled in San Antonio. I don't do media every day.

— LaMarcus Aldridge

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

— Michael Hastings

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

— Emily Browning

If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.

— Karl Lehenbauer

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

— Sean Smith

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

— Steven Pinker