Quotes About Truth

I am a journalist.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

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 am not a journalist or an academic.

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

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

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 find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

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.

A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for democratic society.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.