Business Quote by Thomas Sowell

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it,…

— Julian Assange

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to…

— Gwen Ifill

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

— Christopher Lasch

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness…

— Edward Jay Epstein

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you…

— Helen Thomas

“That is not quite true. At least not all the time. News outlets can and likely do sway public opinion all the time and…

— Pete Thorsen

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less…

— Evan Williams

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even…

— Michael Jackson

What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion…

— Robert G. Picard

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the…

— Jef I Richards

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and…

— Heather Brooke