Cycles Quote by William Kristol

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

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

— Patrick Cockburn

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn…

— Rachel McAdams

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated…

— Daniel Hannan

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen…

— Salman Rushdie

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists…

— John Pilger

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print…

— Kara Swisher

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

— Ana Kasparian

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

— Tom Wolfe

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

— Ron Suskind

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room…

— Ellen Goodman

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