Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

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

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

What a nice mob you press fellows are--wholesale scavengers!

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

Most journalists are idiots.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

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.