#journalist

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#every #impossible #journalism #journalist #moral

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

— Ian Hislop

#fast #hard #help #journalists #printed

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

Peanut butter is my frenemy. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#adventure #art #being #chance #chaos

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#curiosity #journalist #writing #art

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#pacifists #patriotism #war #men

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carre

#journalist

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists.... ↗

— Tom Rachman

#journalists #newspapers #journalist

I was...a journalist...though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#journalist