Frank Caliendo Quotes

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.