Bars Quote by Judy Woodruff

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue…

— Floyd Abrams

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

— Thomas Frank

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending…

— James Fallows

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead…

— Claire Fox

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

— Judith Miller

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.

— Trey Gowdy

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

— Garrett Graff

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively…

— Bill Keller

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

— William O. Douglas

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

— Scott Pelley