Naomi Wolf Quotes

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

I don't think about the media.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

What we watch on television, we approve.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

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

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

I think we're living, in terms of media, in a very democratic age, but I think that we still look at everything through the lens of 'Vogue' and through our own point of view.

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or anywhere else.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.