I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

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.

I make pop culture.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

I became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

We are all the President’s men.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.