Becoming Quote by Lewis Black

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting…

— Mark Leibovich

“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

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

— Howard Kurtz

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to rise and…

— Michael Wolff

“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

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget…

— William Safire

“As the media was wont to do, their reports became more and more hysterical and fantastical, in an attempt to keep their audience interested,…

— Joshua Dalzelle

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

— Drew Curtis

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

— Dan Abrams

Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains…

— Andrew Bacevich