John Dunne Quotes

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

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

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

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

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

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.