Steven Pinker Quotes

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

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

I used to be a journalist.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

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.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

News is the first rough draft of history.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

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

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I love journalism.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

Journalism is not writing.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

News is history shot on the wing.

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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.