Soha Ali Khan Quotes

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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

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.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

All the news that fits we print.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

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