Journalists Quotes

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

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

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

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 see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

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.

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.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

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 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.