Defensive Quote by Melvin Maddocks Download Open image “Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.” — Melvin Maddocks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defensive Idealistic Journalist More Nothing Than
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history. — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality"… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we… — Hugh Douglas Copy Share Image
Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 - basically, I was always attacking. I didn't have to… — Georginio Wijnaldum Copy Share Image
Any time I'm healthy I feel like I'm the best defensive player in the NFL. — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
The top coaches want wide strikers who cut inside. They want playmaking midfielders who can play between the lines as well as perform their… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
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