Journalist Quotes - Page 37

• I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Kind, Conversation

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

  Christiane Amanpour

  People, United States, Don't Trust

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• In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Play, Russia, Iran

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• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

  Floyd Abrams

  Thinking, People, Police

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• I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

  Freema Agyeman

  Negative, Estates, Please

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  Gary Ackerman

  Confused, Philosophy, Hockey

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

  Nigel Cole

  Men, People, Film

  "Ladies Man: 'Made in Dagenham' Director Nigel Cole". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

  Ward Churchill

  Comment, Reserved

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• As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

  Frank Delaney

  Art, Writing, Two

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• You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

  Glenn Danzig

  Knows

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• I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

  James Daly

  Artist, People, Privilege

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• Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

  Nick Denton

  Interesting, Bars, Stories

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

  Nick Denton

  Gossip, Stories, Tests

  "Gawk, don't talk" by James Silver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

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• As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.

  Nick Denton

  Trying, Stories, Helping

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

  Amy Goodman

  Jobs, Protect

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• Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Ifs

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

  Bernard Goldberg

  New York, Narcissism, Kind

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Cheer, Party, Tea

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

  Jesse James Garrett

  People, Giving, Preparation

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Titles, Way

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's My New Policy - Self-censorship'" By Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  Owen Arthur

  Were Meant To Be, Politician, Satisfied

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Dad, Wall, Berlin

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  Sade Adu

  People, Shy, My Time

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• Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cost, Attendance, Records

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