Quotes About Journalism

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab.

With no ads, who would pay for the media? The good fairy?

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

Julieta nunca lo decepcionó. Era una periodista nata y de su misma estirpe, capaz de matar a su madre por una primicia, sobre todo si era sucia y escabrosa.