Dan Rather Quotes

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

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.

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

Profiles aren't journalism.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

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

I'm a journalism junkie.

I love journalism.

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

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

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

I used to be a journalist.

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

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 like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

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.