#journalist

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#actor #also #always #asked #become

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#broadcast #i #journalist #many #myself

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#clubs #country #establishment #journalists #outside

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#anti-american #any #blood #editor #hands

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#block #close #cynicism #journalist #necessary

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. ↗

— David Bailey

#joking #journalists #make #never #you

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#bad news #eye #however #journalists #media

I am a journalist. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#i #i am #journalist

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#limits #nothing #off #tends #think

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#here #i #i think #journalist #put