Journalist Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  Daniel Bell

  Curiosity, Philosopher, Moments

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Able, Courageous, States

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• It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

  Steven Weinberg

  Technology, Medicine, Promise

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• I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Talent, Thousand, Just One

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• With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Mean, Careers

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Vacuums

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• Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Children, World, Belief

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

  Mark Leibovich

  Mirrors, Giving, Shining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

  Anthony Shadid

  Humanity, Important, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.

  Andrew Revkin

  Responsibility, Reality, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

  Asne Seierstad

  Real, Objectivity, Opinion

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Dying, Citizens, Journalism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.

  Pete Earley

  Strong, Thinking, Rights

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• If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Simple, Reality, Self

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• I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Responsibility, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Military, Law, May

  ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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• When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

  Tori Amos

  Interviews, Sometimes, Conversation

  "Tori Amos's Misucal Memories". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

  Katie Couric

  World, Curious

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