The journalist, along with the demagogue in general, the lawyer — and the artist as well — has no fixed social position. He belongs to a kind of pariah caste that “society” always judges socially by its least ethical members. As a result, the most outlandish ideas about journalists and their work are common currency.
- Max Weber’s lecture on politics, originally delivered in 1919 (translated from the original German).
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