Journalist Quotes - Page 29

• It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

  Patricia Heaton

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

  Ken Auletta

  Journalism, Problem, Owners

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

  Henry R. Luce

  Discovery, Poet, Easier

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• I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Fashion, College, London

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• As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

  Guy Adams

  Jobs, Powerful, People

  Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Linda Chavez

  Government, Sea, Digging

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• The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

  Philip Wylie

  Book, League, May

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• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, School, Artist

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• I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mother, Character, Men

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

  Joe Klein

  Confused, Writing, Color

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Foundation, Inquiry, Exes

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso

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• Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Bigger, Terrorist

  "Candid blooper". www.thehoot.org. January 22, 2009.

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Comeback

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• The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

  Kathryn Flett

  Editors, America, Years

  "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Discipline, People

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• We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

  Walter Isaacson

  Shoes, Journalism, Niche

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

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• A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

  Gideon Haigh

  Wise, Thinking, Stories

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• I amused myself playing with the journalists.

  Brigitte Boisselier

  Amused

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• 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.

  Bill Kovach

  World, Demand, Way

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• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

  Horace Greeley

  Media, Alive, Journalism

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• As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

  Anita Diament

  Years, Library Research, Doing Me

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• I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist and go, "Boy that's...I wish we could be saying that. That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always think, "Well, why don't you?"

  Jon Stewart

  Running, Truth, Boys

  "The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and ‘Justice for All? The Nomination of William Pryor’". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 11, 2003.

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• Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Ideas, Buttons

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• An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic.

  Istvan Deak

  Book, Writing, German Language

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