{"quotes":[{"text":"Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["journalism","new-york-city","new-york-times"],"id":442,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.","author":"John Pilger","tags":["journalism","media","politics"],"id":566,"author_id":"John+Pilger"},{"text":"He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.","author":"Jennifer Lanthier","tags":["china","freedom-of-speech","journalism","prison","stamps","writing"],"id":1172,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lanthier"},{"text":"When I came to the Middle East, journalists had a kind of immunity that allowed us to travel freely and meet with militants who hated Israel and the United States. In 2000, when I was working for Agence France-Presse, I didn’t feel fearful when I went to Gaza to meet with Hamas leaders or to the West Bank to speak to Palestinian gunmen. These men didn’t much like me. We didn’t have anything in common. But they felt that they had to treat me with common decency and a modicum of respect because I was a journalist and I was writing about them. They wanted to spin me so that I would give the world their version of events. They were never completely happy, of course, because my pieces didn’t make them look as perfect as they looked to themselves. But they needed to talk to me and other reporters because we were the only way they could get their story out. Now jump ahead to 2006. Zarqawi was on his killing spree in Iraq, and suddenly the Internet had become ubiquitous, and uploading videos on YouTube and other platforms was literally child’s play. So Zarqawi and his henchmen said to themselves, “Why should we let reporters interview us and filter what we say? We can go straight to the Internet and say exactly what we want, for as long as we want to say it, and we can post videos that Western journalists would never show.” Journalists became worthless, at least as megaphones. But we became valuable as commodities to be stolen, bought, and sold, traded for prisoners, or ransomed for millions.","author":"Richard Engel","tags":["journalism","journalists"],"id":4021,"author_id":"Richard+Engel"},{"text":"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.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["journalism","journalists","media","newspapers"],"id":4048,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journa.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["dogma","journalism","liberal","liberalism","objectivity","politics"],"id":5326,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"Freedom of the press can never be the licence to say anything one desires. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to slander and attack and must never be used to fight other people’s wars. It does not mean manipulating a story into speaking your views. One might think it common sense but in the world of journalism a lot of what makes sense is lost to the lure of favouritism, greed and fame. Sadly, in this truth-telling business truth is hard to find.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["arab-media","arab-spring","freedom-of-the-press","journalism","media","media-studies"],"id":6139,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.","author":"Hilary Mantel","tags":["journalism"],"id":6671,"author_id":"Hilary+Mantel"},{"text":"It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["roots","internet","journalism "],"id":6877,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"},{"text":"Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.''Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on, it’s a newspaper office.","author":"Jack Iams","tags":["journalism","newspaper","newspapers","reporter","reporters"],"id":7500,"author_id":"Jack+Iams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":474,"pages":48,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}