Portal:Journalism/Selected quote/23

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A newspaper is not an entity capable of sustaining a friendship. It is unprofessional in a career-journalist to foster trust except in the hope of future indiscretion. There is only one useful rule to be followed by a person whose fate it is to be interesting to such people. Stay away from them. They will kill you.
— Matthew Parris, Parris warning Prince William of Wales upon receiving an invitation to a party held by the Press Complaints Commission

[edit] Source

  • Sanders, Karen (1990). Ethics and Journalism. Sage Publications Ltd, p. 107. ISBN 0761969675.