Art Quote by Janet Malcolm

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

Call me radical, but I've always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom…

— Neil Macdonald

“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

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

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

— Karl Kraus

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

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

“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

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...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

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

— David Grann