One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
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.
Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a candidate unscripted.
Stop pretending journalists are anything other than the Hillary PR team.
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
The Ballon d’Or? It’s up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible.
Among journalists, there is a saying: ‘If it bleeds, it leads.’ This can result in some serious hustling – and some serious sloppiness – whenever a crime occurs. The public’s longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it’s the opposite.
The dedication of Don Winslow’s novel ‘The Cartel’ is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or ‘disappeared’ in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 – the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it’s a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.
For a long time I think journalists and society at large really did drink that Kool-Aid. They bought the message that the tech industry is good and they can do no wrong.
I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.
Journalists know other journalists – that’s the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don’t think real people are interested – just the media, just Twitter!
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’ I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
I do miss talking in the press, I miss meeting journalists at shows and stuff but maybe that’s more out of habit than anything?
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
I will always try to stay on the right path, listen only to my coaches and my inner voice. If there is good advice from journalists, I will take that as well.
Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it’s also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
One of the main functions of politicians – and journalists – is to simplify the world for us.
Journalists constantly ask Metallica if the success of their new album means they’ve had ‘the call’ to record a Zeppelin cover album yet.
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
Journalists aren’t supposed to be cheerleaders.
We’re all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.
Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
