27 Quotes by Tom Rosenstiel

When a president is popular, there's a tendency to describe events describing his popularity. When the numbers are falling, you use that as a lens to explain why his popularity is diminishing.

While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.

What distinguishes Nightline - the heart of its appeal - is its intelligence, seriousness of purpose, integrity and its depth.

Power is shifting from the journalist setting the agenda, to the consumer becoming their own editor - deciding what their media diet will be. We're in the fast food news culture, where you've got a huge buffet. (And) we do almost nothing in the media world to teach people what they need to know to be an intelligent consumer of news.

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Do you not cover today's car bombing because you want to do a longer piece about the return of the agricultural economy?

This is the dark side of synergy. One of the few things that people still trust about the American media, unlike media in other countries, is that you can't walk in with cash and pay for a story. That perceived integrity is a lot more valuable than any one interview.

This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity.

At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.