Why did you become a journalist?” “Better than working for a living.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
