#journalists

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#ambiguous #journalists #like #rather #report

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#called #come #cooks #could #enough

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#i #i think #journalists #medium #think

Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#between #big #bush #cleaned #clock

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. ↗

— John McCarthy

#better #both #face #honesty #humanity

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#clubs #country #establishment #journalists #outside

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work. ↗

— Buzz Osborne

#critics #else #i #journalists #kind

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agree #american #american politics #black #black hole

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#issues #journalists #leadership #pay #pay attention

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#around #baggage #bring #cultural #down