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• I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Objectives

  Source: collider.com

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• When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.

  Martin Schulz

  Cutting, Technology, Ongoing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

  Ann Coulter

  People, Inspire, Needs

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• I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

  Glenn Beck

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

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• I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

  Glenn Beck

  Want, Opinion, Makers

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• You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

  Glenn Beck

  Air, Tragedy, Firsts

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• Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Brother, Husband, War

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• Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Views, Media, Should Have

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• Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also played in Dakar. It is not only the music which is playing an important role on this issue of problems affecting Africa, but the activities of doctors, sportsmen and journalists are also helping in various ways.

  Manu Dibango

  Doctors, Talking, Issues

  "Manu Dibango: Expressing His Creativeness Through The Saxophone". Interview with Joel Savage, joelsavage1.wordpress.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lied, Should, Never Lie

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

  Meryl Streep

  Smart, Love You, Men

  "The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star". Book by Karen Hollinger, 2006.

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• Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Sick, Police

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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