P. J. O'Rourke Journalism Quotations

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.