Scott Eastwood Quotes

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

I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

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

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

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

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

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

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.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

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

I'm less upset with politicians than the media. I feel like politicians, there is a certain, inherent - you know, the way I always explain it is, when you go to the zoo and a monkey throws its feces, it's a monkey. But, when the zookeeper is standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey... Somebody's got to be the zookeeper.

We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution is, does it care whether it makes mistakes or not? And does it correct them?

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.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.