Common Quote by Glenn Greenwald

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone…

— Buzz Osborne

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

— Karl Kraus

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

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep…

— Bill Dedman

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest…

— William Butler Yeats

“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

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

— Patrick Cockburn

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

— Todor Zhivkov