Journalist Quotes - Page 8

• I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.

  Richard Shepard

  Real, Character, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.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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• 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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• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Reading

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

  Pete Earley

  Years, Skins, Nine

  "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

  James Purdy

  Broken, Broken Down, Alcoholics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

  James McBride

  New York, Book, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hard Work, Winning, Fiction

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• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Talking, Self, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

  Rebecca Mead

  Curiosity, Qualifications

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mother, Children, Real

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.

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• I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

  Jessica Lucas

  Jobs, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?

  Sean Hannity

  Jobs, Thinking, Foxes

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Drinking, Laughing

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.13, Bantam

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• To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Making Money, Grievance

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• Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Fate, Today, Tomorrow

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• Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.

  Shaul Schwarz

  Heart, Thinking, Stopping

  Source: collider.com

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• As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

  Dave Barry

  Way, New Ways, Paid

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.99, Ballantine Books

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• France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Occupation, France

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• In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

  Linus Torvalds

  Talking, People, Hackers

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