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Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

1988

★ 1.8

Essay · Magazine

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

1989

★ 1.8

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them...if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

Theodore Roosevelt

1906

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · 1962

★ 3.6

We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Chicago Labor Enquirer · 1888

★ 4.3

Political literature

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

1920

★ 5.1

Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic · 1840

★ 5.2