Quote by Patrick Cockburn

“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

“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”

— Nathan Hill

A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in particular it's…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

“My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised....…

— Conrad Black

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

— Michael Pollan

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political…

— Frank Bruni

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

— Robert Rinder

Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference.…

— William Kristol

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

— Scott Pelley

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