Sean Spicer Quotes

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

The media's job is to question a premise.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

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

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.