#journal

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. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#bahrain #comprehensive #confirm #division #eager

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#become #biggest #biggest problem #friends #involved

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#good #i #i can #i feel #job

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#contributing #field #forum #forward #great

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context

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. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#artist #beyond #comprehensible #forever #himself

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#called #had #i #journalist #rather

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#afghanistan #doing #festival #film #film festival

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. ↗