Authority Quote by Masha Gessen

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside…

— Ron Suskind

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

— Calvin Trillin

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's…

— Alex Gibney

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

— Jorge Ramos

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

— Amira Hass

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to…

— Jorge Ramos

When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and…

— Kim Raver

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

— Ron Suskind

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one…

— Walter Cronkite

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration…

— Dee Dee Myers

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

— Sydney Schanberg