Hailemariam Desalegn Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

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

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

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.

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.

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

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

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

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

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.