Love Quote by Diane Sawyer

There is something almost mischievous in Sawyer framing journalism not as answering, but as choosing. The line elevates the “early process” - that messy, pre-broadcast limbo where curiosity is cheap and certainty hasn’t arrived to flatten everything. By foregrounding questions, she sidesteps the heroic myth of the journalist as omniscient narrator and instead casts the job as editorial triage: What’s the real story here, and what’s just noise?

The subtext is power. “Deciding which questions matter most” is an admission that every profile, investigation, or sit-down interview is built on exclusion. What gets asked becomes what the audience is allowed to consider important; what doesn’t get asked quietly disappears. Sawyer’s phrasing softens that authority with the language of love and process, but it doesn’t deny it. It’s a reminder that objectivity is less a clean window than a set of deliberate choices about framing, emphasis, and risk.

Context matters: Sawyer comes out of a legacy-media era when a handful of gatekeepers could set the national agenda, then later worked through the cable and digital churn where attention is fragmented and incentives tilt toward heat over light. Her quote reads like a professional ethic in an age of endless prompts: the discipline isn’t in having questions - everyone has those - but in ranking them, resisting spectacle, and finding the one inquiry that makes the rest of the story rearrange itself.