David Talbot Quotes

People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

NEWS is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

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

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

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

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.