Journalist Quotes - Page 28

• I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Ipads, Looks

  "Steve Ballmer: Apple Has Sold More iPads Than I'd Like" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 29, 2010.

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• When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

  Julia Cameron

  Thinking, Editors, Said

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• In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

  Robert Fisk

  Years, Waiting, Bosnia

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

  Robert Fisk

  Trying, Firsts, Reason

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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

  Stella Gibbons

  Style, Nasty, Poor

  1932 Cold Comfort Farm, foreword.

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• I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Trying, Arrogant, Literature

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• When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

  Andrea Mitchell

  War, Fire, Rights

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Honesty, Attitude, Artist

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• I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.

  Shepard Smith

  Running, Fire

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• Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

  Robert Fisk

  Successful, Colleagues, Ifs

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• Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

  Robert Fisk

  President, Narrative, Accepting

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• 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.

  Amy Goodman

  Powerful, Responsibility, Helping Others

  "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media". Book by Amy Goodman, 2004.

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

  Amy Goodman

  Years, Track, Ridiculous

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Creative

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• The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

  Jill Abramson

  White, Numbers, House

  Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

  Bill Moyers

  Trust, Believe, Media

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• I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

  Tina Brown

  Writing, Thinking, Moments

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• Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in

  Tina Brown

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Motivation, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

  Ben Bradlee

  Thinking, Editors, Lazy

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

  Ben Bradlee

  Differences, People, Newspapers

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• 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.

  Jill Dando

  Mean, Hair, Blonde

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• Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

  Craig Charles

  Trying, Arms, Dustbin

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