Journalist Quotes

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First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

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.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

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

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

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.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn is that journalists are very messy.

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.

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.