Steve Capus Quotes

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

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.

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

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I love journalism.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

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

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

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

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.