Simon Hoggart Quotes

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.

If you're gonna watch the Drive-By Media, don't take it seriously.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

I don't read the press that much.

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and so on. It's only when you go abroad and try to find out what is going on in the world that everyone falls with gratitude before the BBC News.

I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

RT completes the picture of the events in the U.S. and around the globe, giving viewers access to a range of stories, voices, and opinions and a real opportunity to speak their minds.