Craig Newmark Quotes

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

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

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

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

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

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

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.