Tabitha Soren Quotes

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists. When professional antagonists become after-hours drinking buddies, they are not likely to turn each other in

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.

Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and [my wife Margot] always also conjured that.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.