Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

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

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

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

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

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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.

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

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

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

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

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

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 media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

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.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.