Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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

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

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.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

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.

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

Most journalists are idiots.

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 democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

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 reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

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

The media's job is to question a premise.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

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