Leandra Medine Quotes

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

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

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

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

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

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'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

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

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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

I'm a journalism junkie.

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.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

I love journalism.

I'm doing real journalism.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.