Quotes About Journalism

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as it relates to hot-button cultural and political issues.

The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.

I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.

The media helps keep government honest.

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

All the media are horrible.