journalists’ privilege

  How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

—Kraus, Karl

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

—Humphrys,John

Journalists as a group, unlike all other powerful groups, require some protection from themselves, and from their own excesses.

—Black (of Crossharbour), Conrad Black, Baron

Journalists saya thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

—Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold