Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

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

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

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

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

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

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

Is journalism a profession that serves the public by maintaining high standards, or is it a social construct that should be redesigned to directly serve certain social goods? Some argue that all journalism involves bias, either hidden or revealed. But it is one thing to say that objectivity and fairness are ultimately unreachable. It is another to cease grasping for them. That would be a world of purely private truths, in which the boldest liars and demagogues would thrive.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.