Emile Lahoud 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

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

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.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

On streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of money now changes hands—tying the hands of those elected to lead.

I always thought it would be a terrible mistake, and I would hope that none of my news journalist colleagues would ever consider it.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

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

If we shake the pillar of a free and objective press, we're harming our American national interests.

Bribes and special deals were offered to members to say yes.

Not all politicians have a nexus with Veerappan.

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.

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

New disclosures were made showing again how Hillary Clinton's pay for play works.Saudi Arabia paid Bill Clinton a lot of money to make a speech and then got an arms deal from Hillary and her State department that they were unable to get.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.