Heather Brooke Quotes

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

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.

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

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

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 prize independence - not teamwork.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

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.

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Reporters aren't actually people!

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.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

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

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.