Nora Ephron Quotes

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

What has surprised me most about being a celebrity is the fascination with pregnant women. After I had Rocco, the paparazzi came and sought me out. I never had that before. There's a whole industry, literally, based on people having children. I guess because you're changing, putting on weight. It makes me very uncomfortable. I didn't enjoy that much at all.

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

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

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.