Top 175 Journalistic Quotes & Sayings

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.

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

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.

I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never really into those kinds of comparisons.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Nothing gets my journalistic juices flowing more than a seaside chalet, the mention of a private jet, or room service in St. Tropez.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!

I'm from a more rigourous journalistic background. If I say a car is good or bad, the viewers can trust the fact that I have spent all my working life reviewing cars.

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.