Ariel Helwani Quotes

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

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

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

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

Most journalists are idiots.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media and things that I say.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

I wasn't always a Twitter devotee. During the 2012 campaign, the first during which Twitter was widely used by journalists and campaign aides, I became something of a scold to younger reporters who I thought misused the medium.