Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews and articles and pinups and posters to follow our favourite artists. Nowadays? Twitter is actually the new rock magazine.
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.
