Quotes About Journalism

There's something about the power of influential correspondents tweeting something that has become the fastest way to get a story moving. It will turn into something much faster and much bigger than it would have.

I've only very rarely sent a tweet to a politician. I think it could look a little too buddy-buddy if you're tweeting with people that you cover.

We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

I think people should be encouraged that there are so many people in the press that want to participate.