#lists

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bureaucrats #comes #corporate #digging #government

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #writers #writing #nature

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. ↗

— David Ives

#discriminatory #elitist #lists #print #small

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

— Eric Alterman

#fact #inequality #journalists #life #needn

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#again #ask #asked #bands #because

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #center #different #different ways #drag

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know! ↗

— Tom Baker

#daily #going #happen #journalists #just

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#basis #civil #civil society #democracies #emerging

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ↗

— Dave Barry

#extremely #how #journalists #know #little

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#faith #fundamentalists #haven #least #message