Quotes About Journalism

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.

San Francisco's KQED.

Jones's faithful old friend and chronicler O. B. Keeler, now fifty-five and still covering the sport for the Atlanta Journal, was on hand to witness his victory and interviewed Byron in the locker room afterward. The unfailingly literate Keeler mentioned that Byron's back nine charge had put him in mind of Lord Byron's poem about Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His headline the next day read: "LORD BYRON WINS MASTERS.

The whole point of American journalism has always been detachment from authority so that critical analysis is possible.

On September 12, 2013, the Atlantic, a progressive media outlet, reported that there were at least twenty-four journalists who transitioned from media jobs to working in the Obama administration.

As many regular consumers of news can attest, this condescending elitism, a fundamental characteristic of progressivism, abounds in the attitude of journalists, and undoubtedly in the environment of newsrooms in all their platforms.

In other words, journalists should not seek and report facts as news, but launder their news gathering priorities and the facts themselves through a progressive ideology to give them meaning and purpose.

The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.

journalism has become an overwhelmingly progressive enterprise, and the disingenuousness with which it is mostly denied, defended, or even celebrated often leads to a pack mentality, groupthink, repetition, and even propaganda presented as news.

newsrooms and journalists have also traveled far from the substantive principles and beliefs that animated the early printers, pamphleteers, and newspaper publishers who gave birth to press freedom and American independence.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

For the first time in our history, the news increasingly is produced by companies outside journalism, and this new economic organization is important.

should be to assemble not only a newsroom that might resemble the community but also one that is as open and honest so that this diversity can function.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.