I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.
I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.
If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.
I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.
Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.
Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.
There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.
This is the whole ball game, and this is what I really want to say. I'm proud that journalists are standing up, individually, speaking up in ways that we rarely see. They're not anti-Trump. They're pro-democracy.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.