Journalist Quotes - Page 39

• Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, American Military

  "Coulter: 'Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.'" by Oliver Willis, www.mediamatters.org. February 10, 2005.

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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  Anthony Daniels

  Memories, Past, Views

  "Selective Memory". www.city-journal.org. July 6, 2004.

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• One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Years, Advice, Pieces

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Thinking, Risk, Ambitious

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

  Steve Bunce

  Sports, Noses, Ability

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  Gerald Seymour

  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

  Jaron Lanier

  Money, Artist, Musician

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.83, Vintage

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• On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Order, Iron, Raf

  "Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2012.

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• The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

  Brendan Gill

  Gun, Events, Pages

  Brendan Gill (1975). “Here at the New Yorker”

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• Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Fun

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Roots

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• Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

  Gay Talese

  Passion, Games, People

  Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.1, Random House

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• Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

  John Conyers

  African American, President, Cardiac

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• And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

  Joan Konner

  Organization, Abuse, Roles

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• Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

  David Brooks

  Victory, Republican, Rage

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• I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

  Robert Darnton

  Want, Historian, Spells

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• Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Impact, Government, Asking

  "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.

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• I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Iraq, Community, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Drunk, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Blue, Jewels, Wave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Two, Interesting, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

  Brian Patten

  Sight, Clothes, Poetry

  Brian Patten (2007). “Selected Poems”, ePenguin

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