Ava Gardner Quotes

Most journalists are idiots.

Reporters aren't actually people!

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

The press are scum.

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

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

Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.

Journalism is not what it used to be. I thought it was an important job, but it is not. I'm idealistic, and it pretty much upsets me that negativity sells and that even if I wanted to tell the truth, I wouldn't be able to if my boss does not okay it.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

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

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.