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• I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

  David Talbot

  Business, Teenager, Integrity

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• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  Linda Vester

  Survival, Stories, Sometimes

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• Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Long, People

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• I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Journey, America

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• Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

  Gwen Ifill

  Rude, Tough, Good Things

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• Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

  Roger Mudd

  Powerful, Believe, Privacy

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• But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

  Roger Mudd

  Doe, Privacy, Acknowledge

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• We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Support, Democracy

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• I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

  Gerard Depardieu

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• We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

  Chris Patten

  Writing, Government, Wish

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• And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

  May Sinclair

  Nurse

  May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”

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• For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.

  Howell Raines

  Fishing, Hints, Flavor

  Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  "Anderson Cooper's 'I'm Gay' Announcement Draws Mixed Reactions on Twitter" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 02, 2012.

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

  Michael Pollan

  Party, Agreement, Two

  "Michael Pollan on Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.tomdispatch.com.

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• I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

  Dan Rather

  Cutting, Thinking, Differences

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• I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Art, Years

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• Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

  Nora Ephron

  Would Be, Screenwriters

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• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

  Billy Bragg

  Artist, Thinking, Important

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• I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.

  Harold Bloom

  Hate, Thinking, Feelings

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• Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

  Germany Kent

  Media, Tweet, Social

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• All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style.

  Ilan Stavans

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

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• Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

  Stefanie Powers

  Made, Industry

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• There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

  John Oliver

  Real, Thinking, Intention

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Presidential, Criticism

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