Journalist Quotes - Page 30

• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

  David Remnick

  Running, Independent, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Day Jobs, Consuming

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• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  George Seldes

  Brother, Father, World

  George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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

  R. W. Apple

  Writing, Politician

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• I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

  Jim Lehrer

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Freedom Of Speech, Earning

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

  Anna Politkovskaya

  Dog, Ignorance, Special

  "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.

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• I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

  Maria Shriver

  Jobs, Identity, Losing

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  Maj Sjowall

  Country, Jobs, Sweden

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

  Randall Rothenberg

  Problem

  "Journos Not Quite Getting Digital Media". bigthink.com.

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• To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loath to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one.

  Tom Gross

  Party, Curves, Numbers

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• I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

  Jonathan Demme

  Rocks, London, Late

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, News

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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
  Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  Brian Molko

  Real, Believe, Giving

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• But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

  Glenn Danzig

  Real, Interviews

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• A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

  Louis Menand

  Risk, Curiosity, Requirements

  "Browbeaten". www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

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• A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Reporters

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• You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

  Peter Costello

  Lying, Years, Magazines

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• What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq....They target and kill journalists ... uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.

  Linda Foley

  Country, Hate, Military

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• 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.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Nfl, Numbers, Issues

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• It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fairness, Apologizing, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

  Alan Price

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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• Only two journalists followed the team around.

  Just Fontaine

  Team, Two

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