Journalism Quotes · Page 82

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.

— Ed Helms

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy…

— Luis Bunuel

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

— Mandy Moore

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,…

— Sarah Stillman

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

— Allan Sloan

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a…

— Shane Smith

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

— Roy Peter Clark

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more…

— Matt Taibbi

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This MeToo is bothering me much, making me shun TV and newspapers. They are making such wild charges for cheap publicity, claiming…

— Sowcar Janaki

“It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to…

— Christina Westover

“Why do you read all the details of divorce cases in the newspapers? ... you are enjoying it. You would not dream…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers…

— Bill Dedman

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much…

— Jello Biafra

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a…

— Charlton Heston

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as…

— Martina Navratilova

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

— Ira Glass

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

— Noam Chomsky

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

— Nate Silver

“But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people…

— Samuel Selvon

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media…

— Danny Ainge

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“This country prides itself on freedom of the press and went to war with England because you wanted religious freedom”

— Lin Wilder

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has…

— Lois Frankel

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

— Thomas Griffith

So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

— Bill Hicks

The men up on the news. They try to tell us all that we will lose. But it's so easy in this…

— Lorde

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

— Terry Pratchett

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you…

— Brad Listi

“the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.”

— Judith C. Waller

“I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in…

— William T. Sherman

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass…

— James T. Farrell

Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.

— Randy Rainbow

They [in the New York Times] are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim.

— Donald Trump

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

— Jenna Bush

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

— Laurence Shames

I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

— Fran Lebowitz

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

— Eric Schmidt