Graham Greene Quotes

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

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

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

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

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

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.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.