Mike Cernovich Quotes

There are many great outlets that we love and respect, but 'The North Star' really is going to be a hard news outlet with reporters and journalists, White House correspondents. I think we'll be hard news with some cultural commentary.

I have broken a lot of stories.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

I'm not doing Pulitzer Prize work where I'm unearthing major negative stories about the UFC or some big controversies. It's just kind of day-to-day fodder.

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

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

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I feel like Valleywag has been different things with different writers over the years. Up and down. I think it's at their best when they get a legitimate scoop, like when someone leaks them documents. I feel like we could do more of that, breaking stories.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.