Nick Denton Quotes

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.

I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

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

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.