Goedemorgen, journalisten!
Ik opende vanochtend mijn mailbox op de redactie, om uitgekafferd te worden met allerlei ware quotes over journalistiek:

"I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it--a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters." - Gregory Kane, Baltimore Sun, 1997

"[Journalists are] a lower quality of human being, who'll do anything for a story. (...) At press awards they jeer, boo, fight, get pissed, and that's just the cream." - Max Clifford, in an interview for the Radio Times

"In terms of ravenous egos, sensitive ambition and backstabbing, the atmosphere was actually diluted compared with the behaviour of most foreign correspondents." - Anthony Loyd, The Times

"If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist." - Norman Mailer

"[Journalism] is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It's a wonderful profession." - Piers Morgan, Daily Mirror

Deze scheldkanonnade werd gevolgd door de medeling:

'The European Press Network is pleased to announce the official launch of EPN World Reporter. We invite you to be the first to read news, features, and stories exposing and celebrating the world of international reporting.'

Hier istie dan: hun website.
  ¶ 4/09/2002