Journalist Quotes - Page 27

• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

  David Frum

  Mom, Cancer, Figures

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• I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop.

  Suzy Welch

  Determination

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• I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists.

  Craig F. Bohren

  Mean, Numbers, Dubious

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• Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

  Debby Applegate

  Style, Stories, Research

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• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

  George Will

  Love, Reality, Media

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• We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.

  Ahmed Akkari

  Reality, Media, Play

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• Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

  Ben Hecht

  Political, World, Politics

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• As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, Government, Media

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• An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opposites, Journalism, Knows

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.9, Random House

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• When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Mean, Challenges, Orthodoxy

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• Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

  Michael Connelly

  Heart, Years, Paper

  "Seeking thrills in the newsroom". Interview with Chris Talbott, lancasteronline.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  "Seeking thrills in the newsroom". Interview with Chris Talbott, lancasteronline.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

  Michael Connelly

  Beach, Real, Serial Killer

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• You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst — a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.

  Zelda Popkin

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Rocks, Age

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• I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Cold, Revolutionary, Conventions

  "Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist" by Douglas Brinkley, (p. xvi), 2000.

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• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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• Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

  Yao Ming

  Guy, Away From You, Get Away

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• The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

  Yao Ming

  Want, Impossible

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• I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, Team, America

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• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

  James Frey

  Writing, Interest, Accurate

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• To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

  Phil Donahue

  News, Journalism, Good News

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Objectivity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

  David Lee Roth

  Hate, Looks, Hate Me

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