Analysts Quote by Christopher Hitchens

If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced, and false.

— Stacey Dooley

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

— Jonah Goldberg

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left.…

— David Brock

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman

The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history.

— Richard Harwood

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

— Arianna Huffington

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its…

— Walter Cronkite

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems…

— Jill Abramson

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

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

— Joe Klein

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech…

— Andrew Sullivan

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things…

— Malcolm Gladwell