Cynicism Quote by Paul Simon

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

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

— Brooke Baldwin

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

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

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

— David Grann

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

Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's…

— Ketch Secor

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

— Hunter S. Thompson

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

— Shane Smith

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

— Patricia Marx

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

[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