Quotes About Journalism

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.

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

Journalists said they had never seen so many funny women as leads when we did 'Hotwives' - we had a cast of seven very funny women. That doesn't happen.

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.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

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

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

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.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

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

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.