Soledad O'Brien Quotes

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I'm so impressed with the quality of the 'Evening News.'

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.