Jim Lehrer Quotes

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

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 love journalism.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.