Never trust a journalist.

-Cope,Wendy
If I Don't Know,'How to Deal with the Press'.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  House of Commons, 29 Mar.

A journalist ishardlyanauthorityuponanythingöunless perhapsupontheappraisal of the drift of public opinion.

-Dafoe,JohnW
  Convocation address at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May. Quoted in Murray Donnelly Dafoe of the Free Press (1968).

The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.

-Gibbons, Stella Dorothea
  Cold Comfort Farm, foreword.

   The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

-Kraus, Karl
Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

A historian is often onlya journalist facing backwards.

-Kraus, Karl
Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

While the journalist exists merelyas the publicity agent of big business, a large circulation, got by fair means or foul, is a newspaper's one and onlyaim.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  In G.K.'s Weekly, 29 Dec.

Any daily journalist will tell you that one of the most important secrets of his trade is the trick of making it appear that there is news when there is no news.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  In the Tribune, 21  Apr.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

-Stead,WilliamThomas
  'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist onJournalism (1892).