Quotes About Journalism

What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Pulitzer was the first to cram a paper with pictures and games under shrieking headlines. He offered eight packed pages of thrilling content for only two cents.

news—news which was withheld or slanted in Italy, where journalism had been defined, by law, as a supportive adjunct to national policy.

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I don't talk about my personal life to journalists.

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she's a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.