I’m now an official correspondent for the Star Fleet News service. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e26: A Call to Arms ***** Jake
A Briefing With Neelix. Star Trek: Voyager s2e20: Investigations, Neelix’s foray into journalism
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. Christopher Hitchens
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst. Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
In a media universe where you’re likely to find right-wing conservatives on ABC, Fox, or NPR, the facts don’t matter; only the framing. And in the hands of biased pundits posing as objective journalists, the framing is always going to be the same: pro-military, pro-government, and pro-war. David Potorti
I never, ever have seen media this way. It’s almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It’s making themselves look like utter fools. There’s no journalism, there is no media. There’s pure, full-fledged advocacy here. Rush Limbaugh
Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. Gerald Priestland
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. Emile Zola, Le Figaro, 1881
Perspective is a ghost in American journalism. Last year acts of terrorism killed three to four hundred people, ranking it so far down the list of dangers ... it is barely visible. Lawrence Martin, former Washington correspondent
The abuse against the journalists is just something you have to take into account both literally and metaphorically. If you work in the Middle East you’ve got to take the sticks and stones. What I object to is that my American colleagues don’t seem to be prepared to do that. Robert Fisk, journalist & author
The main major television news networks and newspapers in the United States have long ago let their fear be supreme over their duties as journalists ... They will not ask the right questions. Robert Fisk
Journalism can be lethal. Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try – or should try – to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: ‘We didn’t know – no-one told us.’ Robert Fisk
US journalists I don’t think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government’s policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. Robert Fisk
Total absolute destruction [Syria]: you question the capacity of human beings to create this … constantly recreating what’s happened for hundreds of years. Robert Fisk, This is Not a Movie, 2019
If you don’t go to the scene and sniff it and talk to people and see it with your own eyes, you cannot get near what the truth is. ibid.
Whenever we want to promote freedom and democracy, we always arrive with all our guns and our soldiers. ibid.
I like my life in Beirut. I’m married to a journalist. So we do the same job. I love reporting. I love writing. Throughout all the time I’ve been in the Middle East, I can fully understand the fury and anger at the colonial world which I originally come from. ibid.
Lebanon 1982: I’d never seen anything on this scale of [Israeli] war crime before. ibid.
If you don’t cut the weapons line, wars will go on. ibid.
Terror terror terror … you’re getting it, aren’t you? I have it written down here sixty times but you know the rest. We are in love with the word. We are seduced by it, fixated by it, attacked by it, assaulted by it, raped by it and committed to it. It is love and sadism and death in one double-vowelled word. The opening of every television symphony, the prime-time theme song, the headline of every page, a punctuation mark in our journalism, a semicolon, a comma, our most powerful full stop. Terror terror terror … ibid.
I used to think that dispossession and courage are twins in the mind of a refugee. They are not. Dispossession is the end. Courage, I fear, can be as pathetic as it is irrelevant. ibid.
The journalist is obliged to present his attitude, as vigorously and persuasively as he can, to be examined and criticized in the light of every contrary argument. Mark Walter James Cameron, Point of Departure
The trouble with journalists is that their mental stability is open to question. They are ignorant, lazy and inadequately supervised. And they depend on stifling and depraved gossip and the fawning of hucksters and unfulfilled women. Conrad Black
Those sham impartialists, wolves in sheep’s clothing, simpering honestly as they suppress. Robert Louis Stevenson
Journalism largely consists in saying, ‘Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G K Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown, 1914
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. Lyndon B Johnson
I’m sick to death of the ‘I’m going to tell you everything about me and what I think’ school of journalism. You don’t watch the BBC for polemic. John Simpson, interview Radio Times August 1997
The fear here is you’ll be neck-laced here – and have a flaming tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it’s that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions. Dan Rather, interview cited 9/11: Press for Truth
In America the president reigns for four years, but journalism governs for ever and ever. Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. Oscar Wilde
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde
Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. Arnold Bennett, The Title, 1918
Journalism – an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. Rebecca West, New York Herald Tribune 22nd April 1956
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Adlai E Stevenson
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. Henry Anatole Grunwald
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art. For the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Arthur Schopenhauer
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer
If the reporter’s obligation is to bring us all the truths of war, the first truth is tearing of flesh. Mark Daniels, Enemy Image
The journalist is our surrogate witness. Might he also be our conscience? ibid.