{"quotes":[{"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":"There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["answers","journalists","knowledge","questions","science","scientists"],"id":11427,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.","author":"Ken Auletta","tags":["teamwork","journalists","prize "],"id":16802,"author_id":"Ken+Auletta"},{"text":"They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.","author":"Tom Rachman","tags":["journalism","journalists"],"id":25499,"author_id":"Tom+Rachman"},{"text":"It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.","author":"Louis Theroux","tags":["dna","journalists "],"id":36437,"author_id":"Louis+Theroux"},{"text":"There is a certain concentrated, avid-for-blood look that appears on the faces of reporters on the trail of a very big story that you'd have to visit the big cat house at the zoo to see duplicated in its primal state. From the look on Brenda's face, if a tiger was standing between her and this story right now, the cat would soon have a tall-journalist-sized hole in him.","author":"John Varley","tags":["cats","journalism","journalists","reporting","tiger"],"id":42489,"author_id":"John+Varley"},{"text":"It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.","author":"Adam Gopnik","tags":["experience","historians","history","journalism","journalists","scholars"],"id":42924,"author_id":"Adam+Gopnik"},{"text":"It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.","author":"Rebecca Aguilar","tags":["journalism","journalists","news"],"id":43999,"author_id":"Rebecca+Aguilar"},{"text":"When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.","author":"Justin King","tags":["cops","homeless","journalists","justin-king","poverty"],"id":58082,"author_id":"Justin+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}