Megyn Kelly Quotes

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

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

The media's job is to question a premise.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The job of media is the accountability of government.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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.

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

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

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

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