Quotes About Journalism

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

One of the best things that we have in India is a free press.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I get along fine with the press.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

Over the years, I'd hear Jon Stewart disavow being a journalist and say, 'No, I'm a comedian.' I'd be like, 'Stop pretending. You know you're a journalist.'