Quotes About Journalism

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.