Journalist Quotes - Page 40

• At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Boys, Numbers

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• And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, People, Important

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• My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  Lionel Barber

  Father, America, Special

  Lionel Barber's Fulbright lecture, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2011.

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• My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

  Lionel Barber

  Father, Years, Careers

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• I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Political, Becoming, Film

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• I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Intelligent, May, Facts

  1898 House of Commons, 29 Mar.

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• I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Golf, Hair

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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• Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

  V. S. Pritchett

  People, Academic, Used

  "V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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• I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

  Benjamin Booker

  Thinking, Wanted

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• There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Arrogance, Fool, Pseudo

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1815, Random House

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• Relationships matter above all, and that you build relationships by making yourself useful, not annoying. The PR practitioner should focus on providing helpful service to the journalist whenever possible. Help them source good story ideas, provide sources with intelligent contributions to make, thank them for their time and attention.

  Laura Fitton

  Intelligent, Ideas, Focus

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• Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

  Manuel Valls

  Freedom, Jew, Policemen

  "France Vows To Combat Terror With Massive Rally". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2015.

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• Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

  Eason Jordan

  Military, Believe, Reality

  "US military 'still failing to protect journalists in Iraq'" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests against the French embassy, that hasn't ingratiated them to a French nuclear negotiating team that is deeply cynical about the nature of the Iranian regime.

  Karim Sadjadpour

  Nature, Team, Cynical

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• Join me in reaching out to young journalists in our classrooms ... or in your own newsrooms. They need our help along this journey. They need our help. The future of our industry needs you, your wisdom and your guidance, to help them live up to their potential.

  Willow Bay

  Journey, Needs, Helping

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• The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  America, Corporations, Covering

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• I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

  Megan Fox

  Hate, Honest, Uncomfortable

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• So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

  Megan Fox

  People, Scandal, Hungry

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• In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

  Michael Pollan

  Responsibility, Lines, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

  Michael Pollan

  Lines, Activist, Draws

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• There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

  Mick Jagger

  Talking, Giving, People

  "Pop Music : 10 Questions : Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

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• If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Racist, Chance, Ifs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Air, Dust

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3227, e-artnow

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• Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ideas, Long, Important

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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