Quotes About Journalism

The first Rolling Stone interview was with Donovan.

don't fuck it up with pompous bullshit; the demise of Rolling Stone would leave a nasty hole. Sincerely, Hunter S. Thompson Woody Creek, Colorado

HUNTER'S FIRST PIECE was "Freak Power in the Rockies: The Battle of Aspen.

Rolling Stone was selling almost as many copies in London as in Los Angeles and had a big reputation.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE hanged himself at age forty-six. I had sent one of our best new feature writers, David Lipsky, out to profile Wallace when Infinite Jest was first published in 1996.

Si el periodista es listo, en la entrevista sales listo; si es tonto, sales tonto. Y, como la mayoría de los periodistas son tontos... Créeme: no hay nada peor que un periodista. Salvo un político, claro.

aquella era una época en la que, allí, en Cataluña, nadie hablaba de ese tema. Entonces todos los periodistas, todo el mundo político y económico sabía que el gobierno autonómico estaba hasta arriba de mierda, pero nadie o casi nadie decía nada...

when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that for a woman, a working-class woman, to want to be a writer, to want to be a good writer, and to believe that you were good enough, that was not arrogance; that was politics. (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? p. 103)

Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story

Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one

With the Internet, characters like Drudge could pursue—without the constraints and rules imposed by editors and institutions—

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.