Quotes About Journalism

I'm a features writer, and an Indian at that, so I get all the shit jobs. Not the dangerous shit jobs or the monotonous shit jobs. No. I get to write the articles designed to please the eye, ear, and heart. And there is no journalism more soul-endangering to write than journalism that aims to please.

I know it's a bit nosy– (Susan) A reporter being nosy? Damn, there's something you never see. (Ravyn)

You believe everything you read in the papers? They get all the facts screwed up, and I think most of them are so crooked, they have to screw their pants on in the morning. Hell, most of them have to go diagonal just to walk in a straight line." – Sundown

Gareth raked her with a nasty glare. "What are you? A fucking lawyer?" Susan:"Worse. Reporter.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst. The worst. The absolute worse. They have an agenda that you wouldn't believe.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.