Journalists Quotes · Page 9

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

— Nancy Gibbs

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

— Michael Arrington

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

— Brian Stelter

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

— Stephen Mallinder

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians…

— Mark Twain

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

— Jeff Pearlman

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

— Jorge Ramos

I would say, hand on heart, I probably had a very good relationship with the press. The tennis journalists that followed me…

— Tim Henman

The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending…

— Kitty Kelley

“He also knew that journalists dread having to digest a long official report when writing against a tight deadline—all the more so…

— Adam Hochschild

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I…

— Edward Snowden

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I…

— George Clooney

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators…

— Bob Barr

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear.…

— Yair Lapid

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who…

— Jonathan Zittrain

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism…

— James D'arcy

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the…

— Glenn Greenwald

Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans…

— Soledad O'Brien

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,…

— KRS-One

“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases…

— Beatrix Campbell

I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the…

— Rachel McAdams

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

— Jon Rappoport

“Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

— Hubert Burda

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

— Marguerite Duras

“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.”

— Leslie Cockburn

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very…

— Jorge Ramos

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

— Frank Ocean

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

— Felix Dennis

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

— Glenn Greenwald

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

— Patricia Moyes

“journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Most”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that…

— John Caudwell

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

— David Ignatius

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are…

— Guus Hiddink

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…

— Tom Baker