Quotes About Media

I think journalism is important.

I believe frontline journalism is important.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.

Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could put Jesus' face on the cover that it would do really well on the newsstands. So every year, they would put Jesus' face on the newsstand. There was a formula there.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.