Dan Rather Quotes

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.