Journalist Quotes - Page 8

• I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

  Arnold Kling

  Thinking, Issues, Leader

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• There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Levels, News

  Interview with Cassie Logan, www.theshorthorn.com. April 13, 2015.

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• I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Writing, People, Age

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• A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

  Tom Colicchio

  Couple, Wine, Thinking

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• Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

  John Pilger

  Lying, Grieving, Ciphers

  "Interview with John Pliger" by David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, People, Friendly

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  Tough Questions, People, Criticism

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Hero, Player, Tables

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• The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

  Bill Kovach

  Organization, Views, Doubt

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Space, Scientist, Print

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• People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus for that. We're discussing things that hopefully people might get something out of, but it's wildly inconsistent. Just because we hit on points that resonate, or people think are real complaints - that doesn't make us journalists.

  Jon Stewart

  Real, Thinking, People

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• ...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Views, Important, Point Of View

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• Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

  Elif Safak

  Media, Land, Turkeys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

  Laurence Shames

  Thinking

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

  Laurence Shames

  Thinking, Names, Careers

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.

  Planningtorock

  Track, Want, Knows

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."

  Jello Biafra

  Jobs, Nbc, Media

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

  Arsene Wenger

  Cat, Doors, Rooms

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• The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

  Ricky Martin

  Gay, Thinking, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• he ones that bother me the most are the media saying, "He's like the next Bill Hicks." It's supposed to be complimentary, but then all these Bill Hicks fans show up thinking you're going to be like him, and then go, "You're no Bill Hicks." And I'm like, "I never wanted to try to be like him, I don't think I'm anything like him at all, and now you're mad at me for not being him because a journalist didn't have a better reference."

  Doug Stanhope

  Thinking, Media, Mad

  "Portrait of the artist: Doug Stanhope, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2012.

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• First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. 
  (on Bulgarian journalists)

  Ivan Slavkov

  Football, Jam, Firsts

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• You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

  Lester Holt

  Running, People, Stories

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• One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

  Jay Carr

  Self, Play, Long

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• The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Sometimes, Speed, Advantage

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• After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

  Burk Uzzle

  Philosophical, Years, Trying

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