Quotes About Journalism

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

There are far too many journalists who are in a rush to be first, instead of being right.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

Journalists aren't known for their courage so much as their belief that there is safety in crowds.

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe the lies when they see them in print.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.