Yair Lapid Quotes

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

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

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.

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

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

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

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.