(187 quotes found)
“U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.”
Robert Fisk
“Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.”
Melvin Maddocks
“I'm delighted to be part of an organization of dedicated journalists whose sole mission is to report the news every minute of every hour every day,”
Connie Chung
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public”
Oscar Wilde
“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”
Christiane Amanpour
“Journalistic clichés migrate from broadcast to broadcast.”
Dmitri Lyubosvetov
“As a journalist, the details always tell the story.”
James McBride
“The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.”
George Steiner
“We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.”
Auberon Waugh
“I used the First Amendment to protect sources and to protect some journalists, and I felt very strongly about that, ... It was a serious criminal investigation, and I felt compelled to protect the sources of information and the journalists reporting the information.”
Frank Melton
