Journalist Quotes - Page 33

• For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Journalism

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• I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Men, Quitting

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• "Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Heaven, Journalism

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.118, The Floating Press

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• There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hunger Strike, Clubs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

  Jonathan Lynn

  Funny, Facts, Journalism

  Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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• One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, School, Journalism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Soccer, Baby

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Buying, Serious

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Jobs, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Home, Covering

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Touching, Sides

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Thinking, Journalism

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.266, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Tape, Radio

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.182, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, People, Journalism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.36, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Kids

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• Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Giving, World

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.61, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Mean, Awards

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.92, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Stories, Way

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Journalism, Language

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.235, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Wikileaks, World, Surveillance

  "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.

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• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Russia, Media, Baggage

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• Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Media, Mutts

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• Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'

  Martin Walker

  Stupid, Media, Confusion

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• The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crazy, Simple, Media

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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