Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I didn't want my biases to decide what's in the public interest and what is not.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

Never trust a journalist.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn is that journalists are very messy.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

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

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

All the best! You are a local legend in a Brisbane and Australia...you probably don't realise just how much...you will get released from that hell hole...you will come home...and discover your 'celebrity status'...which you will probably find nearly as hard to cope with...a different version of hell...anonymity to global fame...what a remarkable journey your life is. Keep safe...head down...this will pass.

Dean's eyes were studying me. "You have a way with words. What kind of writing do you want to do?" "Articles for Dad's paper, to start." "What do you want to write about?" I paused, suddenly uncertain about how much to share. Dean's eyes were reassuring. "When I know more, I'd like to write about deeper things.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

Fear didn't suit me.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. The music plays in my ears and I float further and further away from war. Fucking Baghdad.

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.