Balance Quote by Joe Sacco

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

— Nathan Hill

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

— Luke Harding

“Newspaper readership, on average, tilts a bit left. (They have data on that.) And newspapers, on average, tilt a bit left to give their…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“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

“A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will…

— Daniel Willey

The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's…

— Lou Dobbs

“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life…

— Paul Auster

“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

“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

“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman…

— C.S. Lewis

“My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is…

— Graham Greene

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