Quotes About Journalism

I'm not friends with politicians. I'm not people's mate.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

We've got rid of subeditors because we don't need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

I don't think there are any rude questions.

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

People have paid for content. They always have.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.