Robert Redford Quotes

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Journalism is not writing.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

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

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

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

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

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'm a journalism junkie.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I love journalism.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I'm doing real journalism.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.