Jon Stewart Quotes

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

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

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

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

There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

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

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].