Astonishing Quote by Max Weber

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being…

— Julian Assange

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting…

— Will McDonough

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.

— Fiona Barton

“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely…

— G.K. Chesterton

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young…

— Ayn Rand

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

“The real trouble with the newspapers is that while they frequently exhibit the average man at his worst, they rarely show him at his…

— Booker T. Washington

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking…

— Tom Rachman

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The…

— Conrad Black