Quotes About Journalism

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn't really serve us in the age of Trump.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Just because somebody says you are not trustworthy, that doesn't mean it is so... CNN's brand equity is built over 37 years doing hard work in very dangerous places... those who rely on CNN trust CNN more than ever.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

The truth is that 'The Jerusalem Post' is the most credible newspaper in Israel.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.