Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't necessarily have the same sort of obligations that a journalist might have. A journalist might be called upon to be objective, whereas a documentarian is sort of forced to take sides.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.