Chris de Burgh Quotes

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

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.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

We try and slow down the news.

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.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

I think that there are some in the media who have an overinflated view of their mission.

I don't read the paper.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.