T. J. Miller Quotes

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

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.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.