"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."

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"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."

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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Journalism, Deep, Guidance, Information, Interest

"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Journalism, Writing, Belief, Language

"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Journalism, Truth, Media, Bias

"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Journalism, Truth, Press, Deception, Media

"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."

Laura Hillenbrand, American Author

Journalism, Editors

"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Journalist

Journalism, Europe, Flying, News

"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."

David Talbot, American Journalist

Journalism, School

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

Sonny Liston, American Athlete

Journalism, Dumb, Questions, Sun

"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."

John Gunther, American Journalist

Journalism, First, Want, Will

"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."

Warren Ellis, British Author

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"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services."

Media, Example, Today

"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."

Government, Laws, Media, Result

"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."

Public,

"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"

People, Corporate, Criticism, Media

"What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly."

People, Interest

"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."

Saying,

"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."

Media,

"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races."

Will, Years

"Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you."

Media, Buying, Saying, Want

"If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them."

Race, Running, Want