Vicky McClure Quotes

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

I'm a journalism junkie.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

I love journalism.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.