Ability Quote by Robert Fisk

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as…

— Robert Fisk

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who…

— Henry Grunwald

I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served…

— Randy Shilts

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses

— Nancy Pickard

It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize…

— Lawrence Wright

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make…

— Ibrahim Babangida

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having…

— Michael Bywater

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

— Witold Walczak

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it…

— Henry Steele Commager

Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are…

— Sean Hannity

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed…

— Louise Wilson

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops…

— Alfredo Jaar