Quotes About Journalism

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

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

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

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Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

The 'Belize Times' will be back. I can't at this juncture say exactly when it will be back in printed form. As you know, it is presently published online. But this historic newspaper will one day, hopefully soon, rise again.

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.