#journalist

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#balanced #based #been #check #credibility

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build. ↗

— James Wolcott

#aware #big #brain #build #cite

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#each #enough #fight #food #i

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bit #book #caught #david #david letterman

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#display #ever #family #house #i

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

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