Journalism Quotes · Page 75

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

— James Fallows

Sometimes you do need to question society, you do need to question your parents, you do need to question the media.

— Adore Delano

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just…

— Malcolm Turnbull

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

— Christopher Lasch

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired

— Angela Phillips

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

— Ryan White

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

— Roger Mudd

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities…

— James Daly

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by…

— H. L. Mencken

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make…

— Walter Lippmann

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten…

— Michael K. Powell

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are…

— Paul Saffo

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we…

— Walter Cronkite

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten…

— Bill Kurtis

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career…

— Soledad O'Brien

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print…

— Mahathir Mohamad

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies…

— Saul Bellow

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

— Sela Ward

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a…

— Cindy Sheehan

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

— David Weigel

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs…

— Stacey Dooley

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press…

— Carrie Underwood

My first thought when I started in journalism is that I wanted to work for a fashion publication like 'Vogue' or 'Glamour.'

— Malika Andrews

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

— David Brock

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

— Rick Moranis

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

— Fiona Bruce

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

— Tim Hetherington

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was…

— Lev Grossman

“Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.

— Gavin Esler

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that…

— Charles Kuralt

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

— David Grann

They try to slander your man On CNN and Fox. My Miranda don't stand a chance, with cops.

— Jay Z

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

— Michel Faber

I get stories because people know that I will never lie or make things up or pay for information. I apply a…

— Perez Hilton

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

— Anna Chlumsky

The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola…

— Kola Boof

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

— Bill O'Reilly

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody…

— Bill Maher