Quotes About Journalism

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

I have been lucky to work with a terrific group of correspondents in D.C. but a special mention of Dana Bash.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.

Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

If the public doubts that objective journalism is possible, on what basis can journalists claim professional status?

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson)

Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.

My experience at Chicago and with the newspaper people generally of late has been very satisfactory.

How could such a picture be in a national newspaper The model had ridiculous breasts the size of pumpkins and lips fat and wet and all that she was wearing was a spangled G-string.

A journalist can not be a cynic, can not forget his humanity and that of the people he meets

A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?

Il giornalismo è una missione.

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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.