Firsts Quote by Linda Ellerbee

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Alexander Cockburn

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

— Walter Cronkite

“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it…

— Hans Eysenck

“With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false…

— Charles Seife

“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Garrett Graff

Win or lose a case, the law was logical and understandable, whereas in journalism the criteria for one story being chosen over another seemed…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

— Geoffrey Ward

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

— Lawrence Wright

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be…

— Leon Uris

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

— Walter Lippmann