Great person Quote by Caitlin Thomas

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is…

— Janet Malcolm

“It is easy for journalism to be morally casual, even as it makes large moral claims for itself. So when journalism is accused by…

— Ian Hargreaves

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a…

— Edward Coke

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

“My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised....…

— Conrad Black

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who…

— Carolyn Hart

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is…

— Ben Bradlee

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on…

— Walter Cronkite

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

— David Weigel

“Journalists usually treat anything as true if someone in a position of ostensible authority is willing to say it, even anonymously (and if no…

— Eric Alterman

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all…

— Max Weber