Laura Loomer Quotes

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I studied journalism and was idealistic as a student. In course of time, I learnt that there's a lot of politics, and it's not easy to put forth your point of view as an investigative journalist.

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.