Sam Peckinpah Quotes

Business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Just like there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical attorneys, there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical journalists.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

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

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

Most journalists are idiots.

I'm doing real journalism.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?