Raymond Chandler Quotes

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything... What they don't tell you, and are maybe unaware of, is that they are allowed to write freely because their beliefs conform to the... standard doctrinal system, and then, yes, they are allowed to write freely and are not coerced.