89 Quotes About Journalists
- Author Justin King
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The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil rise through the ranks of the political machines and eventually find themselves safely in bed participating in the incestuous orgy of corruption occurring daily in Washington, DC.
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- Author Harlan Coben
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Politics and the press; two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware.
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- Author Robert Black
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Journalists should read the news as they read the weather, the news is the news, just as the weather is the weather, and no one gives a fuck what their opinion of it is.
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- Author Peter Arnett
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If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.
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- Author Justin King
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When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.
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- Author Judith St. George
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Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. 'If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?' Lincoln asked.""Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. 'Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way,' he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, 'He certainly did.'"John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview.
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- Author Margaret Atwood
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The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.
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