Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn’t work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn’t.
Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There’s no compere. You’d better be on the money straight away; you’ve got journalists in.
The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can’t control.
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Even in private e-mail groups, it is journalists who seem outraged, anguished and disheartened at what has been described as the ‘prostitution’ of news; the reader response is always lukewarm.
I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations – that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell’s Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, ‘Your work is so commercial.’
I’m always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
With legitimate journalists I’ve always had a great time – I’ve never gone out of my way to court the press. That’s probably cost me some money, but I’ve always had the respect of my peers.
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that’s under economic assault and a poor community that’s getting bigger, they’re talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there’s a ‘Ferguson’ near you.
I don’t know that I ‘look up’ to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work – people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don’t agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.
The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right.
Journalists aren’t known for their courage so much as their belief that there is safety in crowds.
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.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a constant topic for national television and radio shows – never mind mentioned by some of the country’s most respected journalists.
When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It’s totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don’t think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I’ve been mercifully unrestricted.
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.
When the journalists asked Gene, ‘Why didn’t you marry the beautiful girl in ‘The Woman in Red’?’ he would always reply, ‘I did!’
All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn’t feel natural for actors.
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn’t the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?
It’s the broadcaster’s dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don’t know if I am or not.
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today’s turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.
I don’t talk about my personal life to journalists.
Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.
Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, ‘Watch out for this one or that one.’ People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.
MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.
I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
I don’t know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn’t think they were going to print it.
I can’t say I’m not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it’s not true. I’m not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.
If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I’m not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
I remember lying to my producer that I’d heard Sean Penn was coming out of a different exit, just to avoid him – he was punching journalists left, right and centre at that point.
Call me radical, but I’ve always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom of expression, and attacks on journalists.
I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.
Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.
Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.
I don’t trust a lot of journalists.
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
It’s the film journalists that I’m wary of.
If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That’s what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
I’ve been avoiding journalists my whole life.
I have had disagreements with journalists, but they annoy me so much when they don’t talk about football.
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.
I don’t understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It’s far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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 want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren’t being told.
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don’t get to be journalists, too – a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
We journalists don’t have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
In France, the image I had was of a shy girl – a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs.
When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.
