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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
What I have more of a problem accepting is the criticism of former players turned journalists, who - some of them - spread their hatred.
In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.
Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
Journalists constantly ask Metallica if the success of their new album means they've had 'the call' to record a Zeppelin cover album yet.
Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.
I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.
I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.
I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for democratic society.
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.
Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.
I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.
Journalists said they had never seen so many funny women as leads when we did 'Hotwives' - we had a cast of seven very funny women. That doesn't happen.
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.
I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, they tell you… not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential.
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.