Quotes About Reporting

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.

I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

Most journalists are idiots.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.