Quotes About Journalism

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody 'journalists' look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?

The media's job is to question a premise.

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd have liked to be a writer, or a journalist, but if things don't come easy to me I don't do them. I think if you're always thinking how difficult something is, you shouldn't be doing it.

Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are presented like fiction, so governments aren't inconvenienced; fiction is presented like fact, so governments stay happy.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

I think it's the aggressive press we have that does try to push President Trump, you know, into an area where maybe he will say something that then they'll just jump on.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

How drab people are, especially from the press.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

I really hate press.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.