Katharine Gun Quotes

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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

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.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

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.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

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.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

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.

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

[Drew] Pearson and [Walter] Winchell are a high price to pay for freedom of the press, but I guess you've got to do it.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

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

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

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

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.