Nations Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Ron Suskind

“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

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

— Rush Limbaugh

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new…

— Henry Grunwald

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings…

— William Greider

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

— Anonymous

The media—stenographers to power.

— Amy Goodman

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons…

— Robert Caro

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

— Robert Harris

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

— Masha Gessen

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

— Rajeev Shukla