Journalists Quotes

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

I wait for death and journalists.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

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

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

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.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

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.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

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

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.