Tina Brown Quotes

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 think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

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.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

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

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.