Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

There is a permanent war between journalists and the political classes.

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

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Reporters aren't actually people!

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

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

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.