Quote by Conrad Black

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The…

— 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

“It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career,…

— Duncan Falconer

“journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Most”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

— Patrick Cockburn

Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking…

— Charles McGrath

Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As…

— Martin Walker

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that…

— Celeste Ng

As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used…

— Guy Adams

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

— Robert Rinder

“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