History books Quote by Carl Bernstein

“Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters'…

— Carl Bernstein

“Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preeminence in American journalism. That vision had suffered…

— Carl Bernstein

“Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do…

— Carl Bernstein

“Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He…

— Carl Bernstein

“Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing about the…

— Al Franken

“My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is…

— Graham Greene

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the news as…

— Joshua Green

“Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or…

— Bob Woodward

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus