Quotes About Journalism

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.

There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

If you're in the fake news, I'm reading your emails.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.