Journalism Quotes · Page 79

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

— Charles Barkley

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

— Jon Stewart

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be…

— Joey Skaggs

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

— Jacob Weisberg

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run…

— Adele

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

— Toby Jones

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

— Steve Jobs

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should…

— David Cassidy

I've said so many things in so many press conferences that caused problems. There's been incidents with police and arrests in Miami.…

— Bernard Tomic

“As the media was wont to do, their reports became more and more hysterical and fantastical, in an attempt to keep their…

— Joshua Dalzelle

“The Society of Professional Journalists believes that "public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy." If that is…

— Larry J. Schweiger

I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it…

— Julian Assange

For anyone who can only handle about 12-minutes-per-day of anything news related before needing to retreat into isolation, allow me to recommend…

— Charlie Kirk

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold…

— Donald Trump

I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked…

— Heather Brooke

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For years I wrote newspaper columns mostly about the teams in my city. There was no cheering in the press box, and…

— Skip Bayless

The center-right alternative media has been playing a passable prevent defense, constantly saying 'That's not right' for consistently biased reporting.

— Andrew Breitbart

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get…

— Tom Stoppard

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

— Mike Cernovich

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

— Robert Novak

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

— Jacques Ellul

All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in…

— Peter Heller

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

— Anderson Cooper

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

— C. E. M. Joad

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I…

— Ira Glass

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

— Lauren Bacall

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely…

— Gene Weingarten

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

— David Brock

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

— Samuel Butler

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

— Madonna Ciccone

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in…

— Tucker Carlson

In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to…

— Paul Gray

As long as people keep buying tabloids, they'll keep harassing people in the public eye. They'll make up stories.

— Scarlett Johansson

If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it…

— Edward R. Murrow

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

— Katherine Boo