Nithya Menen Quotes

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

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

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

We are trained to distinguish between journalism that's short and long, that's responsible and irresponsible, that stands for the right values and stands for the wrong.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

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.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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.