Danger Quote by Pankaj Mishra

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I…

— Jorge Ramos

Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking…

— Charles McGrath

As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used…

— Guy Adams

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and…

— Potter Stewart

I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Moving the focus away from the perpetrator and onto the actual effects not only allows the journalist to report on the issue at hand…

— Zoe Quinn

“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 journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

— Carl Bernstein

“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

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power…

— Joan Konner

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who…

— Carolyn Hart