Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.
Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.
Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.
Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
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.
Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
Never trust a journalist.
Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face. . . Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. . . At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.