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Gerald Priestland1 quote
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. — Gerald Priestland · 1988Janet Malcolm1 quote
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. — Janet Malcolm · 1989John Swinton1 quote
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. — John Swinton · 1888Maxwell Scott1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
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 · 1906Thomas Babington Macaulay1 quote
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1828Thomas Carlyle1 quote
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. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840Walter Lippmann1 quote
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil. — Walter Lippmann · 1920