Dreams Quote by George Steiner

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

— Ted Koppel

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from…

— Clarissa Ward

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The…

— Alexandra Kerry

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

— Patricia Marx

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

— Beth Macy

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

— Marisa Tomei

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to…

— John Pomfret