Journalism Quotes · Page 80

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

— Diane Sawyer

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add…

— Bob Schieffer

Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to…

— Ben Shapiro

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

— George Bernard Shaw

The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

— Bill Vaughan

I don't trust most journalists who belong to Anglo Saxon stock because we know what your inclinations are.

— Subramanian Swamy

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass…

— Yair Lapid

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

— George Bernard Shaw

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that…

— David Mellor

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues -…

— Katharine Graham

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people…

— Louise Penny

Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior…

— Stefan Molyneux

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis…

— Gwen Ifill

“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of…

— Russell Crowe

Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out…

— Roone Arledge

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying.

— Rita Rudner

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

— Thom Yorke

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

— Henry Fielding

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the…

— Michel Gondry

The media is one rather than a series of different entities that are competing against each other.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

— Michael Moriarty

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

— M.C. Beaton

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

— Cenk Uygur

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

— Bob Greene

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

— Gay Talese

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

— Reese Schonfeld

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

— George Michael

I have to listen to the midnight news and I have to see if any of my interview lines have been picked…

— Emily Maitlis

The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

— Craig Brown

There's not much opportunity to learn to read the news. By and large, you either can or you can't do it pretty…

— Fiona Bruce

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

— Margarita Simonyan

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

— Scott Pelley

Digital content is it's own industry that is going through it's own growing pains as with any other industry.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I generally don't read a lot of stuff about me. But I look at Mediaite, at least a couple of times a…

— Steve Doocy

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

— Sebastian Arcelus

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

— Mos Def

The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions…

— Thein Sein

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of…

— Bob Dylan

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

— Mira Grant