Katie Pavlich Quotes

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

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

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

ESPN wants to scrutinize everyone, but if they're scrutinized, they run and hide.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

I know better than to ever attempt to get a reporter removed from covering any topic. That would never be an option.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

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

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

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

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.