Journalism Quotes · Page 88

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

— Robert Fisk

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

— Bob Woodward

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

— Andy Ngo

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never…

— Drew Curtis

I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world…

— Sean Penn

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

— Katharine Graham

We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.

— Katharine Weymouth

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

— Eddie Mair

When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper…

— Rudy Giuliani

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the…

— Barack Obama

The pitfall of what's happening in the media is if you're under thirty, you get your news from the Internet and The…

— Howard Dean

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions,…

— Daniel Okrent

The tradition and style of the 'New York Times' make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could…

— Chen Guangbiao

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be…

— Tariq Ali

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say,…

— Michael Connelly

I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States.…

— Marianne Williamson

“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.”

— Thomas Sowell

The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within…

— Ravish Kumar

When I first became a journalist, people said, 'Oh, that must be interesting.' They saw it as slightly glamorous, slightly edgy. They…

— Fiona Barton

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

— Josh Hawley

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

— A. J. Liebling

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking…

— Steven Weber

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Linda Ellerbee

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

— Anonymous

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

— Thomas Jefferson

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

— G. Gordon Liddy

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

— Roger Mudd

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling ofdisappointment.

— Anonymous

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

— Brian Stelter

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

— William Safire

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

— Maira Kalman

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Information coming directly from a politician or his team, without being vetted by reporters, is little more than propaganda.”

— Katy Tur

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

— Masego

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen…

— Kenny Chesney

“A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.”

— Andy Zaltzman

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one…

— Jim Bishop

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people…

— Frank Zappa

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

— Andrew Breitbart

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

— Rush Limbaugh