Quotes About Journalism

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.

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.

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

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.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. 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.

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.