Gary Ackerman Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

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.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.