I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.
People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who cover the White House. It's a branding thing, but because it has the 'White House' before it, people think they're just King Joffrey's goons.
I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.
I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's guest and he was on the panel. But this was before the Snowden stuff happened. I didn't have the opportunity to meet him in preparation for the movie, unfortunately, for various reasons. But I was able to dive into the main articles he's written, and interviews with him, and just the function that the character serves in the movie, that was enough for me.
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.
I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.
