Bonus Quote by Thomas Frank

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

— Eric Alterman

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

— Russell Baker

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more…

— Al Gore

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

— H. L. Mencken

“Though it’s hard to believe now, newspapers were once the envy of the business world. Through the eighties and nineties, 20, 30, even 40…

— Astra Taylor

Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.

— Anthony Scaramucci

The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand…

— Hodding Carter III

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

— Lance Reddick

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

— Gore Vidal

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the…

— Dylan Moran

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what…

— Bill Moyers

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination…

— Amitava Kumar