Chris Chibnall Quotes

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

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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.

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

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.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

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

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.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of 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 wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.