Matthew Freud Quotes

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

It is the responsibility of journalists to be ethical. Religion is a very sensitive issue, and I think no truly professional cartoonist in the world would ever try to pick on a religion like this. There’s an informal code of ethics among cartoonists in the media, and it includes two kinds of censorship: one is self-censorship; the other is professional censorship. Religion is one of the very important things that we should respect and not criticize …. We cannot tolerate any disparagement of the Prophet.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

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

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

What a nice mob you press fellows are--wholesale scavengers!

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

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

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.

I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Journalists love to show their compassion.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.