When I started my airline business, I didn’t know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You’d be naive to think you know everything from day one.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
I don’t think journalists should talk about whom they’re voting for.
True-crime shows and podcasts aren’t the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence ‘matches’ a suspect, when scientists can’t be so definitive.
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.
In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production Fifth Estate’s portrayal of the Guardian’s work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.
Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.
Believe me, I’ve known a lot of journalists, and their opinions on most subjects are wrong. If the entire mainstream media is aligned against Trump, it is just about the best endorsement he could hope for!
Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that’s what makes you a good journalist.
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled by activists, institutions, and mainstream journalists with every career-ending epithet from ‘Islamophobe’ to ‘Nazi.’
And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
One thing we’re doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.
I think it’s wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification.
As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.
It’s not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I’ll refrain from doing this at all.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
I’m not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like economic theory are both incomprehensible and, above all, boring. The same is true of ‘management science.’
Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.
With some of the journalists, I’ve known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I always tend to joke around, and some people don’t get it.
Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.
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.
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
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!
Kissinger’s monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger’s Library of Congress cache.
It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.
Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as lawyers, journalists and accountants, are changing too. Some of their tasks are being replaced.
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don’t have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
‘Beyond The Pole’s Facebook page has been incredibly instrumental in introducing us to new people and to making connections with journalists, cinemas everything.
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I’ve never met a journalist I’d rather look like.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.
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.
I wait for death and journalists.
General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
I must be out of it, but I don’t know any good journalists who have excused Clinton’s problems.
I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It’s our job to question – everything.
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
I don’t go to journalists’ houses and start dishing about anything private.
Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn’t like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy’s clock.
I always tell young journalists to leverage what you have. If you have a particular language skill or access to a particular place or culture in a way that others don’t, that’s your advantage.
If you’re curious how Lance Armstrong got away with cheating for 15 years or why Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend went unnoticed for five months, it’s because sports reporters are really just starstruck fans, not hardcore journalists.
One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that’s just a fact of life.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world’s largest democracy.
I merely dared to say Tebow could be a successful starting quarterback in the National Football League – not a Pro Bowler, mind you, just a guy who could win games his way. Which prompted relentless attacks from anti-Tebow analysts and journalists.
