Quotes of: Journalists Keyword

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

Alan Huffman

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

Heather Brooke

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

The Wolf Gift

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

Glenn Danzig

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Niels Arden Oplev

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Pete Earley

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

P. J. O'Rourke

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Rush Limbaugh

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Russell Lynes

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

Thomas Frank

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Maria Shriver

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

Otto Schily

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Tony Parsons

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.

Linda Chavez

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Jaron Lanier

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Geraldine Brooks

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

James Nesbitt

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Harry Reasoner

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

Timothy Noah