Calvin Trillin Quotes

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

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

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

Journalists should recalibrate themselves to be more skeptical of the consensus of their peers. That’s because a position that seems to have deep backing from the evidence may really just be a reflection from the echo chamber. You should be looking toward how much evidence there is for a particular position as opposed to how many people hold that position: having 20 independent pieces of evidence that mostly point in the same direction might indeed reflect a powerful consensus, while having 20 like-minded people citing the same warmed-over evidence is much less powerful.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

Risk is part of our jobs.

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

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

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

To worry is to add another hazard.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.