Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefe...nsible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotatio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water ...of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.... The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »