Clean Quote by Janet Malcolm

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist…

— Janet Malcolm

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is…

— Janet Malcolm

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

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Luke Harding

“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

I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

“Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One…

— Janet Malcolm

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

— Janet Malcolm

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