Quotes About Journalism

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

MADONNA WASN'T GOING to give it up to a regular reporter. We thought first of asking Norman Mailer to do the piece, but in retrospect that could have been an ego train wreck. She agreed to Carrie Fisher. (Carrie said she was our "lower-budget alternative.")

even if ballots are not stuffed by the ruling party on the day of the election, a vote can be undemocratic if the opposition can never make its case properly and journalists are prevented from reporting a government's failures.

Every reporter who sets off across the borders of class and culture should find such kind, candid, and wise guides.

Press Releases are spam

La gente olvida más deprisa que nunca, quizá porque los periodistas olvidan más deprisa que nunca. Viven al día. No tienen tiempo de mirar atrás, y por eso no entienden lo que pasa delante, ni siquiera lo que pasa delante de sus narices.

the Telegraph group noted that four key skills for their reporters would be 'social, video, analytics and search engine optimisation'. What about 'journalism

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

where reporters were not constrained by the interests of the local chamber of commerce.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Alexander Werth

In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.

'The Washington Post' doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets - they don't have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don't have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.