4 Quotes Tagged: Journalism

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Journalists feel contempt for those who fear them and a deep resentment for those who don't.

The traditional mission of the journalist is to 1) be independent, 2) fight power on behalf of citizens. We are getting, with very few exceptions, cowards who worry about their reputation & are afraid to fight the monoculture.

A risk you run when you write a book calling journalists BS vendors is that all your reviewers will be BS vendors.