Quotes About Journalism

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and for three years, that was the only kind of story I was interested in doing.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

You have to feed the press or they'll eat you.

Cable news is nothing more than entertainment, except for the International version of CNN and perhaps the BBC.

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

I always thought I would be the person who sat in the chair for 12 hours. Then I realized there are only three people who do that job.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

Chaos is good for CNN.

I'm just tired of having to say 'cheese' all the time for the press.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

If anti-Trump activists in journalism and politics want to put out stories that actually change Trump supporters' opinions, they will have to begin to understand what Trump supporters' opinions are.

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's a journalistic enterprise, ultimately, even if you are using the memoir as a form.