Journalism Quotes · Page 73

Disfigurement is so widely unrepresented in our media heavy culture it is little wonder people don't know how to react to it.

— Adam Pearson

“NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone…

— Xavier Forneret

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

— Tony Blair

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

— Thomas Frank

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of…

— Stephanie Ruhle

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

— Arthur Brisbane

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

— John Hersey

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The…

— Karl Kraus

The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do…

— Marshall McLuhan

The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets…

— Steve Novick

The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources -…

— Robert Lipsyte

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s,…

— Pete Seeger

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness,…

— Raymond Depardon

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

“Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear…

— Sue Merrell

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty

— Adlai E Stevenson

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one…

— Nicholas Kristof

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

— Barry Commoner

'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.

— Steve Bannon

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

— Michael Moore

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

— Jon Stewart

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this…

— Roberto Cavalli

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

— Garry Wills

I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on '20/20.' That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.

— Ana Kasparian

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

— Ryan Holiday

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

— Valerie Trierweiler

“But you know what?" Neil said before the reporters could respond. "That's petty.”

— Nora Sakavic

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

— Amy Goodman

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

— Bernard Goldberg

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

— George Orwell

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

— James Woods

Frankly, returning the briefing is something that sends a message to the world that we're not afraid to engage. We're not afraid.…

— Jen Psaki

“My first ever part-time job was working in a newsagent’s sorting out the pick’n’mix.”

— Scarlett Moffatt

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

— Michael Deaver

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of…

— Aaron Carter

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.

— Anonymous

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

— Joshua Micah Marshall