Lily Allen Quotes

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.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

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.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

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

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

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

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.