Journalist Quotes

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.
You've got to build a career and a practice.
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
I shudder at the image they would piece together.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
We're playing strip billiards.
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
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