Nithya Menen Quotes

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

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

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

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

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

I'm a journalism junkie.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.

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

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

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.

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?