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Journalist Quotes - Page 3

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.104, Melville House

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

"'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.85, Springer

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

H. G. Wells (2017). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Oxford University Press

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr