I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.