Rahm Emanuel Quotes

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

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

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I used to be a journalist.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.

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

I'm a journalism junkie.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I love journalism.

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

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?