“CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.” WorldFirstsDangerousNewsAreasOrganizationTrainJournalistCnnDeploying Author:Jim C. Walton
“Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.” WorldNewsOrganizationTrustedCnn Author:Jim C. Walton
“We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.” YearsNew YorkConversationNewsConceptsYears AgoOrganizationTwentiesMovedExpectedErasAccountabilityNew York TimesFanfare Author:Alex Jones
“The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.” YearsHouseWhiteBehindsNewsOrganizationEightWhite HouseFoxes Author:David Letterman
“I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.” PeopleHelpingGuyLeftWishOpinionNewsOrganizationTreatsPhonesHelp MeWish YouWade Author:Willie Geist
“Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.” WantProblemAmericaCultureDifficultNewsOrganizationEntertainmentShockingCnn Author:Oprah Winfrey
“We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.” SometimesHardPoliticalTalkingInformationNewsOrganizationReleaseInevitableGiantsMailFormatVetsDatabases Author:Julian Assange
“We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.” HumansEffortQualityRightsGroupsMaterialsNormalNewsOrganizationResponsibleHuman RightsHarmLawyerEngagementPublishing Author:Julian Assange
“Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” CareGreaterComfortComfortableNewsOrganizationStriveJournalismGreater Good Author:David Shuster
“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.” SelfFactsStoriesViewsIssuesOne ThingMediaNewsOrganizationTransformationVariousJournalistServingFraudBiasTabooColumnsIdeologicalEditorialsSelf ServingMedia BiasNews StoriesNews Reporting Author:Thomas Sowell
“And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.” AbilityRolesChangedNewsOrganizationAbuseInstitutionsTraditionalJournalismJournalistTransformedSusceptibility Author:Joan Konner
“I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.” ThinkingCertainCoursesInterestSpecialReaderNewsOrganizationYeahPressesProfitCommunicateBiasViewersSpecial Interests Author:Mark McKinnon
“The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.” StatesGovernmentRunningJobsLastsGuyLosesPoorStepsMonthsPromiseNewsPerformancesOrganizationDown AndDollarsBillionsQuittingAdministrationSecretaryLast TimeCeoGood NewsEmbarrassingMotorHeads UpGeneral MotorsPoor Performance Author:Jay Leno
“Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.” PeopleWayLooksMadeDifferentFactsUseBigsMistakeNewsOrganizationVersusMade A MistakeIphoneAppsIpadsTablets Author:Vivian Schiller
“I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or not. I think they do it because I work for a major news organization, and they think that it can probably be helpful to them and their business interests or their personal interest and what have you.” PeopleThinkingGuyInterestMajorsNewsOrganizationHelpfulCharmingLooking GoodTalk To MePersonal InterestGood Looking Guys Author:Mark Leibovich
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.” FirstsTwoHouseNationsWhiteCitiesNew YorkNewsOrganizationCaughtBoxesTerrorismFlightVulnerabilityReportsPoundsWhite HouseNew York CityInvestigationContinuingFifteenSeptemberReportersFoxesTouringFlewBin LadenSeptember 11FourteenRazorsSprayOsama Bin LadenFox NewsPeppersUraniumCuttersDaily NewsPepper Spray Author:Dave Barry
“New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"!” JobsLandNewsOrganizationPhrasesJetAirlineHeadlinesRunwayDummy Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
“All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.” Has BeensAmericaShareReturnTrumpHigherNewsOrganizationMissionsCorporationsMassiveAllegianceDividendsGruntShare Price Author:Laurie Garrett
“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.” FirstsLinesViewsDoubtNewsConcernOrganizationBottomPoint Of ViewManagersJournalistNo DoubtOwnersBottom LineAllegiance Author:Bill Kovach
“People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.” PeopleViewsExerciseJudgmentNewsOrganizationIndependentPoint Of View Author:David Folkenflik
“A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.” WaySaidSocialPerfectMediaTrumpNewsOrganizationDefinitionsSocial MediaFakeArticlesDeceivingPopeGuardianDenver Author:Vivian Schiller
“I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.” ThinkingTryingStoriesWould BeSocialMistakeCompanyMediaNewsOrganizationDetermineSocial MediaFakeGood NewsBad NewsSlipperySlopesSlippery SlopeNews Stories Author:Vivian Schiller
“The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.” PeopleThinkingHardYoungDemocracyHard WorkInvolvedNewsOrganizationCampaignsGood NewsNonprofits Author:Barack Obama
“If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same thing. And if you turn on any television newscast it's the same thing you already heard, that's research. And that's one of the ways it's done. Authority ends up being imputed simply because of volume. I mean, all of these different news organizations reporting the exact same thing.” IfsWayLooksMeanDifferentEndsDoneTurnsHeardNew YorkTelevisionAuthorityNewsResearchOrganizationPostsVolumeTurn-onNew York Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.” WayTwoHandsGovernmentActionValuesHouseWhiteVisionCasesTelevisionProductsNewsOrganizationResponsibleHearingWhite HouseImperativesCompatibleFactualHygieneOptimalFoolproofLive Television Author:Erik Wemple
“If you look at Drudge and if you see headlines that portend the end of the world tomorrow, don't click on it. Just avoid the crap that pollutes the daily so-called news that comes from left-wing news organizations. You will be amazed. And it doesn't take long, either. Just two days. You go on a Drive-By Media fast, two days of it, and your outlook on life will be dramatically improved.” IfsWorldLooksLongTwoEndsLeftMediaGoes OnTomorrowNewsOrganizationWingsCrapAmazedOutlookEnd Of The WorldHeadlinesClicksTwo DaysLeft WingOutlook On Life Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.” PeopleIfsWayYearsHas BeensCountryStatesMightPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesNewsYears AgoOrganizationImpactDebateMainstreamSkepticalVigilantForeign CountriesPolitical Debates Author:Barack Obama