Journalist Quotes - Page 7

• The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

  Mona Charen

  Character, Self, Entitlement

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ignorance, Successful, Simple

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

  Warren Buffett

  Smarter, Better Off

  "Blow to Press Freedom in Turkey" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Art, Strong, Writing

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.

  James Ponsoldt

  Fate, Night, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Jobs, Compassion, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Gun, People, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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• I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Rooms, Four

  "Love & Other Drugs - Anne Hathaway interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

  Larry King

  Secret, Curiosity, Absolutes

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• Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia. There are women in all professions. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, politicians, journalists and so on.

  Bernard Lewis

  Long, Important, World

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• There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

  Michael Anti

  Real, Names, Long

  "There’s No Need for the Chinese to Censor If Facebook Does It for Them" by Robert Giles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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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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• I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, Cynical, News

  "State of Play - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, House

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 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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• I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

  Charlotte Church

  Thinking, Shadow, Restaurants

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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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• 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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• 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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• One of the problems with the media covering this place is that there are stereotypes of news, one of which is "war rages" and the other is "peace dawns." And there isn't much in between. When I talk to foreign journalists, often they are gritting their teeth because they've been asked for a piece about how shops are reopening and restaurants are reopening and so forth - happy pieces. And it just ain't so.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Media, Dawn

  "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

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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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