Media Risk Quotes

I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

An average of more than one journalist a week has been killed for reasons connected to his or her work.

They are servants to a fickle public; they must seize its attention by novelty, hold it by new injections of interest, and then move on to something else. A newspaper can risk boring its public at its own peril.

I don't want to do anything that puts my team members, my camera people or producers, in danger, so it's an ongoing dialogue on all the stories that we do.