Michael Hastings Quotes

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

Most journalists are idiots.

I'm doing real journalism.

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

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

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

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

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

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 not a politician; I'm a journalist.