Cynical Quote by David Grann Download Open image “Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Journalists Opposite Think
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything. — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
