#journalist

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them. ↗

— Al Franken

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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

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But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain. ↗

— Bill Nighy

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If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

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The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. ↗

— Robert Fisk

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