Sean Spicer Quotes

Journalism is not writing.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I love journalism.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Profiles aren't journalism.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

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

The reporting has always been what drives me.

Great questions make great reporting.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

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