Quotes About Journalism

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

I'm not a sportswriter.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

I'm an ex-'Globe' guy. My friends are depicted in 'Spotlight.'

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

The media needs to do some soul searching on itself and ask why they continue to spread provably false stories, and stop projecting their own dishonesty onto others.

The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.

I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Putin must stand as the guarantor of media freedom.

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

I don't do stand-up anymore. There are no rules in stand-up comedy. Journalists follow plenty of rules.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.