Jeff Zucker Quotes

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

News is the best drama on television because it's real.

I watch a ton of CNN.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

There are so many political talk shows out there that are doing such a good job that it would be foolish of me to try to get in the ring with them.

I never thought I'd be covering the White House. I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN. And I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN while Donald Trump was president.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

What reporters may increasingly see as a necessity, readers see as a scourge.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

There are always issues on the front page that need to be explored.