Journalist Quotes - Page 3

• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Writing, Media

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• Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Doctors, Lawyer, Newspapers

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: an Interview With Frederick Wiseman, Director of the Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 02, 2002.

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• Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

  Russell Lynes

  Drinking, Writing, Excellent

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• Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

  Ken Auletta

  Teamwork, Independence, Prize

  Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”

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• I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

  Conrad Black

  Philosophy, Long, Cartoon

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• Never lose your sense of the superficial.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Superficial, Loses

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• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Expression, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

  Anne Roiphe

  Choices, Needs, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Government, Nsa

  "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.

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• I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

  Doug Aitken

  Curious, Horrible, Small Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Thinking, Veteran

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Cnn, News

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

  Kathy Griffin

  Comedian, Remember, Folks

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• Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hate, Pretentious, Call Me

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• Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

  Martin Durkin

  Careers, Alarms, Ugly

  "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.

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• I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

  Anjem Choudary

  Liars, Believe, Western

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

  George Orwell

  Country, Dark, Thinking

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• I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

  Mark Leibovich

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sweat, Four, Bullets

  Source: content.time.com

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• I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Heart, Stories

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• Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Tasks, Care

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• 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.

  Will McDonough

  Enough, Shallow, Results

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• I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

  Jayson Blair

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Tony Parsons

  Dying, Ends, Music Business

  "What I see in the mirror" by Tony Parsons, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.

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