Media Profession Quotes

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I think it's like any other job. If you want an extension as a reporter or a media guy or whatever you want to do, I think you are going to open up your ears to talking about a raise or whatever it might be. I'm in the same position.

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 a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don't call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

I will say this, being an anchor is easier than being a reporter, because one of the things I'm able to do is essentially work a bit of a split shift.