Journalism Quotes · Page 65

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

— Garrison Keillor

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

— Simon Sinek

Usually I don't pay attention to the media, because a lot of it is just opinion.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

— Willie Stargell

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

— Jesse Watters

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to…

— Ian Poulter

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

— Diana Ross

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

— Norman Pearlstine

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

I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People,…

— Russell Brand

I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The…

— Pankaj Mishra

Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit.…

— Andrew Breitbart

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their…

— Jennifer Egan

We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke.…

— Ashleigh Banfield

An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin…

— Istvan Deak

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

— Marshall McLuhan

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

— Jennifer Aniston

I think that there are some in the media who have an overinflated view of their mission.

— Martha MacCallum

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how…

— Lydia Polgreen

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites,…

— Jason Alexander

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar…

— David Folkenflik

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,…

— Frank Zappa

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have…

— Princess Diana

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

— Maria Ressa

The world of the media has grown so big that everybody has to attach themselves with it.

— Narendra Modi

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

— Erik Larson

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid…

— Glenn Greenwald

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

— Sucheta Dalal

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

— Shami Chakrabarti

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

— Chris Powell

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

— Jesse Helms

I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism…

— Katy Tur

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

— Ben Bradlee

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are…

— Roger Ailes

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

— Ken Cuccinelli

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the…

— P. J. O'Rourke