#journalist

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra? ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #communists #designer #fashion #glasses

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#fast #hard #help #journalists #printed

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. ↗

— Edward Klein

#discoverable #enough #hard #i #i have learned

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#also #always #certain #critical #fair

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#different #first #first time #had #i

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#chose #dying #end #going #gym

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

— Antonin Scalia

#could #journalistic #machine #purpose #someone

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#had #journalist #never #think #time

I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a great deal. However, facing a very complex thing, you should find out its essence. -Jin Yongquan ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#basis #civil #civil society #democracies #emerging