Journalism Quotes · Page 61

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

— Kellyanne Conway

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

— Julian Assange

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

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

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

— Robert Reich

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

— Scott Adsit

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

— Hal Borland

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar…

— Nick Denton

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

— Peter Jackson

The Harding/Kerrigan saga was one of the first feeding-frenzy stories that would forever change news coverage.

— Connie Chung

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is…

— Lou Dobbs

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the…

— Herbert Bayard Swope

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They…

— Caitlin Thomas

Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media,…

— Janeane Garofalo

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of…

— Jonathan Alter

I also don't think all of the revenue will come from digital subscriptions. We have in the New York Times a mix…

— Dean Baquet

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On…

— Carl Hiaasen

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12…

— Nancy Meyers

Tom Brokaw has been criticized for not being patient enough with me. But, in his defense, he is a news purist, and…

— Mariette Hartley

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

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about…

— Brian Stelter

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

— Ernest Bevin

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

— Kamal Ahmed

All I try to do in the press is be honest about something that I really care about.

— Kristen Stewart

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

— Christopher Hitchens

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

— Anonymous

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the…

— S.E. Cupp

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

— Frank Rich

'Tiempos del Mundo' is insignificant as far as the newspaper market is concerned here in Buenos Aires.

— Pepe Eliaschev

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?

— Stephen Colbert

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

— Paul Craig Roberts

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

— Adolph Ochs

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.

— Vince McMahon

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher