Average person Quote by Duncan Falconer

“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”

— Nathan Hill

“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

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

— Luke Harding

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Karl Kraus

“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it…

— Hans Eysenck

“The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

“Remember when we were idealistic young journalists who thought we could make the world a better place? We wanted to chase out corrupt politicians…

— Susan Schoenberger

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

“The media are the equivalent of yesterday's scientists, for today's scientists have seen that when they conduct an experiment they are part of it…

— Doris Lessing