Journalists Quotes

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

I wait for death and journalists.

Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.