Milo Yiannopoulos Quotes

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

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 hate journalists. I don't trust them.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

The press are scum.

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.

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.

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

Reporters aren't actually people!

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.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

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.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

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