Quotes About Reporting

When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.

Journalism is not writing.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

I'm doing real journalism.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

My dream was to do political journalism.

Definitely there has been a decline in journalism. It wasn't there at all when you fought an election, won, lost and came back to become an editor. That must have been the golden age of journalism.

Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.

I love journalism.