John DeJoseph Quotes

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

News is the first rough draft of history.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

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

The [London] Times has made many ministries.

Television today is the stage on which the drama of politics is played out.