Journalist Quotes

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

I was a bad journalist.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

I am a journalist.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

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.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.