Quotes About Journalism

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

Anchormen shouldn't cry.

There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

In the 24-hour news cycle of cable, we don't always get it right.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Journalists like to invent a person, and it's not necessarily the person that they're writing about. The image the tabloids try to create of me and Bob is very different from how we really are. They try to make us out to be mad jokers. But I wouldn't want to put journalists down. That's their job.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.