Joe Pantoliano Quotes

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

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

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.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

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

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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

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

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.