Journalism Quotes · Page 66

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell…

— Jeannette Walls

“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”

— David Burr Gerrard

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

— Princess Diana

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they…

— John Caples

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political…

— Jill Abramson

“At a time when the words 'fake' and 'news' are being paired together, "Radio Okapi Kindu" honors journalism and the importance it…

— Jennifer Bakody

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

— Mercedes Schlapp

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,…

— Bill Moyers

When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with…

— Frederick Lenz

You and I make the mistake of assuming that the Republican Party doesn't like the media. You and I make the mistake…

— Rush Limbaugh

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of…

— Paul Gray

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the…

— Fred Barnes

Look, when you're in the public life you have to understand, the press - good bad or indifferent - is going to…

— Michael Capuano

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story,…

— Abi Morgan

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

— Ludwig von Mises

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

— Daniel Levitin

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through…

— Oriana Fallaci

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity,…

— Roger Ailes

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

— Gillian Flynn

“We live in a world where people wait for the Media to tell them who they are, and what they should be…

— Mitta Xinindlu

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

— Tony Benn

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who…

— Harry Reasoner

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

— Daniel Schorr

When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very…

— Ethan Zuckerman

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

“Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph…

— Adolph S. Ochs

To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of…

— Ann Coulter

I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

— Michelle Gielan

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

— Stephen Kinzer

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

— Kapil Dev

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

— Asne Seierstad

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

— Erin Duffy

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers…

— Anna Politkovskaya

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

— John King