Ryan Holiday Quotes

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

I was a bad journalist.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

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

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

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

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.

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

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

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

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

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 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.'

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.