Iraq war Quote by Sarah Kendzior

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

— Nathan Hill

“Let us immediately establish the point. Our enemies know full well that news is an important weapon in modern warfare and they are unceasingly…

— Matthew Gordon

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

— Patrick Cockburn

“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“it may be added that the press is apt to favour the enemy, for the war correspondents are generally all on the side of…

— Charles Edward Callwell

“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 absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those…

— Kanan Makiya

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people…

— George Orwell

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

— Mira Grant

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

— Bill Dedman

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald