Current events Quote by Mark Crispin Miller

Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so…

— Anonymous

“I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who…

— Greg Palast

“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need…

— Walter Kirn

“We’re professional liars, aren’t we? It’s our job to keep the story interesting.”

— Wendy Wax

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

“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

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.”

— Lennox Morrison

“When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.”

— Bethany L. Brand

“These are true stories told from memory – to which you are entitled to ask, what is truth, and what is memory to a…

— John le Carré

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's…

— Walter Kirn

“Reading the article he wished for more detail ... But the media was the last place one should look for truth. A person was…

— Jason Mott