Frank Ocean Quotes

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.