Quotes About Journalism

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

As a guerrilla journalist, I participate in the news by holding individuals who are in the news accountable through personal interactions. That involves confronting people in ambush interviews, secretly recording them, or engaging in a conversation with them when they are caught off guard.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.

I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension, indifference, and occasional piercing honesty.

I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column's been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I've already got it set up so that they'll ring someone else first - because I don't want to be given that news when I'm walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.

In covering breaking news, there's no better way than using a helicopter.

I used to say, 'Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?' to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right after a race when I'm still in an emotional state. Now I at least try to answer.

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.