It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
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.
I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
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.
I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.
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