#journalist

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#journalist

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#journalist

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. ↗

— Jamie Whyte

#cynicism #logic #journalist

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office. ↗

— Tom Rachman

#journalists #journalist

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits ↗

— Peter Jennings

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I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#black #blanket #california #did #fact

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think