Journalism Quotes · Page 96

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

— Regina Hall

“Journalists are pretty much like European union. They don't take 'no' as an answer.”

— Radovan Kavický

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

— Christopher Lasch

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

— Mehcad Brooks

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're…

— Stephen Kinzer

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

— James Taranto

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

— Rebekah Brooks

“The news coverage was as controlled and accurate as a fire hose wielded by a preschooler.”

— Jem Fox

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give…

— Anonymous

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

All I know is what I do each and every day and what we do here at CNN, which is all about…

— Brooke Baldwin

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a…

— Daniel Schorr

We have more information than ever before, and it is harder to avoid actually seeing what the other side is saying. Yes,…

— Henry Blodget

Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the…

— Alex Jones

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every…

— Pat Oliphant

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make…

— Rolf Dobelli

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

— Rajinikanth

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

— John le Carre

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

— Hany Abu-Assad

“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.”

— Germany Kent

I'd rather have the media as my friends than making use of them for my own benefit.

— Bobby Deol

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

— Julie Christie

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'll never be rude to another news person. It's a tough job, a thankless job. You really have to get out there…

— Clarence Clemons

“They're not the best women covering politics, They're the best reporters covering politics.”

— Katy Tur

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put…

— LZ Granderson

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it…

— Harold Evans

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone

— Edgar Watson Howe

“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”

— Chris Cleave

“Oh, and sorry in advance about the press. In my defense, they started it." "Christ alive," Wymack said. "What did you do…

— Nora Sakavic

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll…

— Lester Holt

The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people.

— Paul Pierce

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

— Nat Hentoff

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

— Hugh Bonneville

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

— Jill Abramson

“In other words, if the media wanted to, they could easily find academics on different sides of the gun debate.”

— John R. Lott Jr

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

— Jill Dando

I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.

— Glenn Greenwald