Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I’m aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it’s telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that’s what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that’s fine because that’s public domain. I know exactly what I’m doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it’s saying, ‘This is who I am, and I don’t have anything to hide.’
I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
As players we’re held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
Journalists couldn’t do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I’ve had some journalists say it sounds like I’m lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
When I joined Bloomberg, I was especially eager to take advantage of the organization’s size. Because I work on a wide variety of stories, bouncing between industries and countries, it’s immensely useful to work together with so many journalists with such a wide range of expertise.
I just don’t want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I’m really proud of.
Secrets don’t stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
I don’t like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
Journalists don’t have audiences – they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
Back in George W. Bush’s second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them ‘the Bomber Boys.’
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
We created compelling television, and I think we exposed a lot of bad people who were preying on children. So if the old-guard journalists have a problem with that, then so be it.
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don’t sue journalists.
I ask myself questions that journalists don’t dare to ask or don’t know how to ask.
The economy, unemployment, the future… Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.
I’m astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it’s a new story.
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it’s not what the words mean that matters but who says them and when. This makes it impossible to negotiate with them and very difficult for journalists to cover them.
Journalists casually use terms like crossing the border illegally when referring to asylum seekers – when in fact there is no law that says they must use the ports of entry.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.
I have friends who are science journalists, and I’m seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they’re pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my wife rather than my activity as university teacher and researcher.
I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party… The journalists who don’t want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can’t do better, so be it.
Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.
At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
When I first started out, I really felt like, ‘I’m a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.’ And I don’t feel like that holds true anymore. I don’t think people respect journalists the same way they once did.
I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor – they’re only complaining because they got caught.
Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.
I assume that – because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities – I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I’ve never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.
On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.
Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene – journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers, so-called historians – had a problem with me for many years.
We’re journalists, and so it’s our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what’s happening on the ground from the perspective of what we’re able to see.
The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we’ve forgotten that here in the United States. 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.
Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.
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.
The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage’s release. Freelancers most often had none.
Art is where we make a stand. If we don’t make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone – for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.
Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.
All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I’m good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it’s just class, and it’s just college.
