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Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always…

— Julian Assange

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

— Luke Harding

“The papers are read               or if nothing else,                             pissed on, the headlines still remain.”

— Kenyatta García

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

— Mira Grant

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.”

— Joe Sacco

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

— Nathan Hill

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth…

— Michael Arrington

“There were rumours and counter­rumours. There were rumours that might have been true, and truths that ought to have been just rumours.”

— Arundhati Roy

“It's all true; only the facts have been changed.”

— Will Kester

“The news is just the story of the same thing happening to different people.”

— Whiskey Britches

“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

— Clay Shirky

“But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292”

— Rachel Simon