"As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing"
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Coming from an entertainer, the line also exposes how porous the boundary is between journalism and performance. Hart built a career in a genre that lives on proximity to celebrity and the controlled leak. In that ecosystem, pushing doesn't always mean confronting corruption; it can mean pressing publicists, coaxing confession, staying on the story after the first rehearsed answer. The subtext is not triumphal. It's labor. It's the grind of follow-ups, the small frictions that separate PR from reporting.
The sentence ends without an object: pushing toward what? That ambiguity is the point. It lets the phrase cover both the ideal (accountability) and the industry reality (competition, speed, ratings). In an era of shrinking attention spans and expanding skepticism, Hart's formulation feels like a modest, almost defensive justification: if the media seems relentless, it's because the job is built on refusal to take "no comment" as the final draft.
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| Topic | Perseverance |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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"As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-journalists-we-keep-pushing-and-pushing-104853/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.


