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I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.
A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.
Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.
I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist
Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.
As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.