Quotes About Journalism

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

My 2016 was basically spent covering Donald Trump and falling madly in love with James Fletcher.

There's one thing I've never seen in a paper. Jamie Carragher linked with this or that club.

Jim Murray's greatest writings were golf writings.

I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.

In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau.

In one case I heard that the censor, in a city in Tamaulipas state, was a local journalist employed by a cartel who sat at a desk in a newspaper office making the final decisions about what that paper could publish and what it couldn't.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.