Ana Kasparian Quotes

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

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

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'm doing real journalism.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

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

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

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

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

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

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

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

I'm a journalism junkie.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.