Journalist Quotes - Page 31

• We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

  Jim Lehrer

  Military, Life Is Like, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Fiction, Research

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• The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Office, Speech

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, Media

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

  Garrison Keillor

  Flames, Class, People

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Enough, Rational

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

  Ted Koppel

  Jobs, Responsibility, Feels

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• My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

  Barry Lopez

  Long, People, Trying

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Rocks, Crafts

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

  Lee Gutkind

  Hard Work, Reality, Creative

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

  Franny Armstrong

  Sports, Jobs, Artist

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• I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

  Guus Hiddink

  Team, Responsible, Should

  Source: dutchsoccersite.org

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

  Guus Hiddink

  Guy, Share, Whole

  Source: dutchsoccersite.org

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• Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Firsts, News

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I don't know if other people have found it difficult relating to me, certainly that's not the feedback I've had. I don't think of myself particularly as a woman working in sport. I think of myself as a broadcaster, a journalist, and the right person for the job, regardless of whether I happen to be female or male.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think because I came from a very strong news background and people were aware of me from that side of things, they appreciated me as a journalist. Maybe it was less difficult for me.

  Jill Douglas

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

  Jay Rayner

  Jobs, Tragedy, Want

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• It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

  Henry Rollins

  Sorrow, Elation, Care

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Journalism

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• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

  Ted Turner

  Zero, Courageous, Journalism

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

  Colin Wilson

  Tired, Hands, Language

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.194, Diversion Books

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  Larry King

  Looks, Enhancement, Journalism

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