Journalism Quotes · Page 70

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

— Charles Lamb

I don't like news channels so I have six websites that I check and I get the daily update.

— Jen Kirkman

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

— Nathan Myhrvold

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

— John Selden

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

— Scott Eastwood

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

— Yao Ming

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

— Ted Rall

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

— Arianna Huffington

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to…

— Amy Hempel

The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that I felt it was very important…

— Donald Trump

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,…

— Florence King

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey...…

— Al Sharpton

Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming…

— Eckhart Tolle

As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

The one-two punch of New York media calling up every agency and corporate advertiser, keeping lists of advertisers who stayed on -…

— Rush Limbaugh

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

— Harold MacMillan

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

— Mike Cernovich

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

— Stephanie Grisham

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

— John F. Kennedy

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

— Craig Brown

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

— Ken Livingstone

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

— Gene Weingarten

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they…

— Daniel Lyons

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

— Calvin Trillin

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

— Colin Powell

The great majority of the things the press has written have been highly inaccurate about myself.

— Ken Wahl

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

— Robert Horry

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

— Fred W. Friendly

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.

— Alistair Overeem

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the…

— John Pilger

If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced,…

— Stacey Dooley

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness…

— Hodding Carter

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get…

— Daniel Pfeiffer

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

— Janet Malcolm

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

— Albert Camus

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in…

— Jim Rohn

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

— Leon Wieseltier

Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.

— David Brock