Jason Calacanis Quotes

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

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

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

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

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I was taught that newspapers were supposed to find out if rumors were true, and if not, not print them.

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.

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

The news is best when it's serious.

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.