Eleanor Mondale Quotes

I love journalism.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Profiles aren't journalism.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

Journalism is not writing.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

I have broken a lot of stories.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.