#journal

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly. ↗

— John Pilger

#journalism #justice #media #peace #media

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#day #every #every day #i #journal

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#journalism #much #never #nothing

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. ↗

— Tina Brown

#craft #dan #end #him #in the end

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #better off #body #degree #inform

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back. ↗

— Tory Burch

#back #been #born #brings #childhoods

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#astute #did #growing #growing up #how

I wait for death and journalists. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#i #journalists #wait

I am not insecure about being a journalist. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#am #being #i #i am #insecure