#journalist

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#issues #journalists #leadership #pay #pay attention

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#around #baggage #bring #cultural #down

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

#because #become #came #desire #i

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#honest #journalists #like #politicians #stay

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

— Bill Moyers

#first #first time #ideological #instead #journalistic

I'm a lousy journalist. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#journalist #lousy

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. ↗

— William Safire

#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#considered #i #journalist #much #peers