Stacey Dooley Quotes

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about 20 years.

We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.

One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.

I was the first black man on television.

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.

It's been great to see broadcasters waking up to the fact that women do offer a different perspective.

Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.