I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.
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I used to be a print reporter.
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, 'Ill see you again.'
We are heading in a lot of dangerous ways. The Chinese character for danger is also for opportunity, so it's not necessarily bad. It's just that as journalists, I believe we have to pay particular attention here.
When Bob Novak wrote that column he wrote it for the Chicago Sun-Times. And I was not privy to who his sources were . . . that did not go through the editorial process at CNN. He has broken no laws and he has distinguished himself as a journalist for many, many years . . . He brings a different voice to our air.
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
It's fair to ask about how many pitches I let Woody throw that year and what effect it might have had on him. But the only time people seemed to be upset was when I took him out of the game. That's when I heard it from the fans and when I got asked questions by reporters. Nobody seemed to care when I left him in.
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.
I am tremendously energized and excited by the opportunity to join an organization that time and time again has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to rock-solid journalism, a dedication that has rightly earned CNN recognition as the global leader in news coverage.
Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.
There can be no press freedom in the Philippines while journalists are forced to live in fear.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
This is a very important principle for any journalist. I would be derelict in my professional duty as a journalist if I were to answer that question.
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U. S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
President Deby promised me that on Monday the (appeal) trial will take place and whatever the outcome of the trial, the two journalists... will be freed within 72 hours.
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors. It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder.
The firm Yahoo says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever knowing what it will be used for. But this argument no longer holds water. Yahoo certainly knew it was helping to arrest political dissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals.
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement'' if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
After the traffic stoppages have passed and the facts are rehashed, reporters are merely craning their necks and halting the normal pace of the news, ... There's 10 or 15 minutes of real news here and they're filling four hours with it. That's what most people have a problem with.
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
For those people who already believed we weren't careful enough as journalists, this gives them more reason to believe that.
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
As a journalist, I was covering the industry and learning the technology and that always meant finding out the history, too, ... It's intriguing.
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
I asked them to show mercy and justice. I explained that Jill is an innocent person who is only a journalist. I asked them to return her so her family and her friends and her colleagues could be with her again.
Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
I do. To Lois Lane, star reporter, after dating for 58 years.
I don't think that's what journalists ought to do, even if they're in opinion journalism.
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
I can totally understand why people who aren't reporters would make that point. It didn't work for me. I could never, as a reporter, see going to the police first rather than asking the subject about it.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.