Eleanor Clift Quotes

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

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.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

TMZ is so disgusting.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

The magazines are always full of something or other about me.

I'm not interested myself in personality news.

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

The sex tape rumor had nothing to do with me, that's why it's so weird. It's like, if you have a sex tape, that's up to you. I want nothing to do with it.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.

Journalism is not writing.

It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.