Ellen Page Quotes

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

I'm a news junkie.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

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.

In 2003, I wrote a New York Times best-seller called 'Shut Up & Sing,' in which I criticized celebrities like the Dixie Chicks & Barbra Streisand who were trashing then-President George W. Bush. I have used a variation of that title for more than 15 years to respond to performers who sound off on politics.

There are always issues on the front page that need to be explored.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.