Journalism Quotes · Page 85

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

— Gayle Gardner

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations...

— George Orwell

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

— Jemele Hill

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde…

— Gretchen Carlson

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

— Edward James Olmos

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

— Joe Klein

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they…

— Dave Barry

“Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far…

— Harry Chandler

I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their…

— George W. Bush

“People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of…

— Steven Pinker

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that…

— Mike Shinoda

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about…

— John Bolton

“Nothing that we do is worse for us than to permit the" newspapers to make our political issues and our political heroes…

— Anonymous

I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are…

— Ethan Brown

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

— Richard Flanagan

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

— Bill Kovach

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…

— Max Weber

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of…

— Bill Moyers

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

— Jay Leno

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

— Nick Denton

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

— Anonymous

I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

— Ray Guy

I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the…

— Samantha Power

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

— Keith Jackson

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous…

— Anonymous

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

— William Kristol

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be…

— Bill Moyers

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

— Will Muschamp

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

— John Caples

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

— Karl Kraus

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

— Jimmy Wales

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

— Taylor Momsen

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd