J Quotes
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“Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.”
“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.”
“Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.”
“Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.”
“Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.”
“Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.”
“Journalists are hardly immune to these forces. We become more polarized, and more polarizing, when we start spending our time in polarizing environments. I have seen it in myself, and I have watched it in others: when we’re going for retweets, or when our main form of audience feedback is coming from partisan junkies on social media, it subtly but importantly warps our news judgement. It changes who we cover and what stories we chase. And when we cover politics in a more polarized way, anticipating or absorbing the tastes of a more polarized audience, we create a more polarized political reality.”
Source: Why We're Polarized
“Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.”
Source: Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media
“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”
“Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.”
“Journalists are not entertainers. We are reporters. We go to places that are unpopular. We broadcast voices that are controversial. We are not here to win popularity contests. We are here to cover the issues critical to a democratic society. We have to pressure the media, to shame the media into going into these forgotten places where so many are sent to waste away in silence.”
Source: The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
“Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.”
“Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.”
“Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.”
“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.”
“Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.”
Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.”
“Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.”
“Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.”
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
“Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.”
“Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.”
“Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.”
“Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.”
“Journalists from the future would appear as history was made. He got nervous as a crowd of them filmed his blind date from outside the cafe.”
“Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.”
Source: Facing Up
“Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.”
“Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.”
“Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.”
“Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.”
“Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.”
“Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented.”
“Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.”
“Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.”
Source: Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
“Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“Journalists: Let's put the media in mediocre.”
“Journalists love to show their compassion.”
“Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.”
“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”
Source: Short Century
“Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.”
“Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.”
“Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.”
Source: Whom do journalists work for?
“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”
“Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.”
“Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.”
“Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.”
“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”
Source: Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness
“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”