Quotes About Journalism

those idiots at Breitbart.

The playing ground between "mainstream" media and the conservative alternatives is forever tilted against the side that has standards, because part of those standards is admitting mistakes and correcting them on the record. The result is a disproportionally long catalog of errors in the press with standards because, more often than not, there is little if any pressure within conservative journalism to admit errors, much less correct them.

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.

There was nothing any of us could write about except what we were allowed to see, which was a concert like any other, a few staged welcome performances, and the usual tourist sites. It was a lesson in control and manipulation. The real audience was not those in the concert hall but the journalists whose role was to deliver a sanitized version of North Korea to the outside world, and what shocked me was how easily seduced they were.

had met a number of South Korean journalists who were rather jaded by North Korea and uniformly said that to understand the DPRK, you needed to follow the money.

Today the term is still used to describe journalism

Images of the sufferings endured in war are so widely disseminated now that it is easy to forget how recently such images became what is expected from photographers of note.

Callarse no es agradable, exige carácter, pero tú no entiendes eso, tú, con la misma arrogancia de todos los demás periodistas que en el mundo han sido, tú te creíste que el mundo no podía prescindir de la vida de Sara.

un diario de referencia que no solo contara los hechos, sino que fuera capaz de explicar sus causas, enmarcarlos en un contexto y elaborar un análisis y una reflexión en torno a ellos.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

En mi profesión ser decente suele conducir a que te quedes sin empleo. No sabes cómo está el periodismo en este país. O estás alineado con la derecha o lo estás con la izquierda. No eres más que una correa de transmisión de las consignas de uno o de otro. Pero intentar contar simplemente lo que pasa y opinar honradamente, te lleva a la marginación y al paro.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you.

I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

There's so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn't. There's never one story from an interview, there's always so many different stories.

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

I want to interview Alec Baldwin.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.