#journalist

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #i #journalist

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ever #i #information #journalist #partly

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #couple #i #journalist #long

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#beginning #being #biographies #book #called

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#ask #being #good #good thing #hard

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#jobs #journalists #protect #their

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#cat #journalists #jumping #public #take

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#important #journalist #scepticism #scientist

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#away #could #get #going #going away