#journalist

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#idealistic #journalist #more #nothing #than

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#ambiguous #journalists #like #rather #report

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#called #come #cooks #could #enough

As a journalist, the details always tell the story. ↗

— James McBride

#details #journalist #story #tell

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. ↗

— Todor Zhivkov

#journalist #people #people say #say #supposed

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#after #college #film #film school #go

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#decades #had #journalistic #life #lives

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#did #get #i #journalist #off

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. ↗

— Clive Owen

#every #full #going #himself #indefensible

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#bipolar #bit #certainly #character #depression