Fire Quote by Ben Domenech

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

— Jim Lehrer

“We live and die by the media. Every time we’re launching a book, I’ll build a battle map that literally breaks down by category…

— Joshua Green

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

“Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear and physical…

— Sue Merrell

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only…

— Carlos Fuentes

“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 traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the…

— Edward Greenspon

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional…

— Anonymous

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and…

— Jacques Ellul

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one.…

— Meg Greenfield

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

— John Harwood

“One thing I understood from the beginning is that the press almost completely tunes out abstractions. They won’t write about ideas without larger-than-life personalities…

— Eric S. Raymond