Journalists Quotes · Page 11

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

— Melvin Maddocks

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

— Nick Denton

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

— David Grann

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep…

— Mick Jagger

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.

— Aidan White

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

— Jos Verstappen

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

— Hope Solo

“What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World.…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak…

— Chelsea Cain

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis,…

— Claire Fox

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the…

— Larry King

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions…

— Joan Konner

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues…

— Ron Fournier

If you're curious how Lance Armstrong got away with cheating for 15 years or why Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend went unnoticed for…

— Sean Evans

In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between…

— Sam Harris

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but…

— Chrystia Freeland

“Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story,”

— Jeannette Walls

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

— Ana Kasparian

“He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to…

— F.C. Malby

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

— Michael Pollan

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

— Ronald Frame

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

— Andrew Ferguson

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

— Christiane Amanpour

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

— Roger Mudd

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

— Osborn Elliott

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the…

— Ken Livingstone

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

— Tony Benn

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists…

— Maria Ressa

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

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

— Ben Bradlee

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

— Chris Powell

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their…

— Alex Berenson

“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”

— David Burr Gerrard

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

— Glenn Greenwald

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

— Matt Welch

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

— Vincent Gallo

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

— Jill Abramson

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

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

— Patricia Moyes