Thomas Griffith Quotes

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

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

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

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

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

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.