You all have the same sort of employers after all. Play for Today: Traitor by Dennis Potter, Harris to journalists, BBC 1971
I think the paper’s a bit dull though, you know, flat. Everything’s got to be done dead straight. News editor tells me I overwrite all the time. Play for Today: The Reporters, reporter’ talk in pub, BBC 1972
Or a question of manufacturing quotes which is going to get you into the most awful trouble one day. Play for Today: One Bummer News Day, journalist’ talk, BBC 1978
I think I’ve got that irritable bowel syndrome. Screen One s2e1: News Hounds starring Ade Edmonson & Alison Steadman, her to him in car, BBC 1990
I’m going to have to go in, legs up, undercover. ibid. female journalist plans entrapment
MUESLI — CANCER SCARE. ibid. The Brit front page
And what’s your star sign, Sean? ibid. Jackie
I’m not in the business of helping people, darling. I’m a journalist. ibid.
He had known for a long time that he was no longer a really good writer. He had spurts. Gonzo: The Life & Work of Hunter S Thompson, woman, Sky Arts 2024
September 11th 2001: It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colorado, when the first plane hit the World Trade Centre on Tuesday morning. As usual I writing about sports, but not for long. ibid. narrator Johnny Depp
This is going to be a very expensive war, and victory is not guaranteed for anyone. ibid.
He always felt like a bit of an outsider. ibid. biographer
He was embedded in the Hell’s Angels’ battalion. ibid. Tom Wolfe
Hunter’s utopia … was San Francisco in the early ’60s. ibid. writer
Hunter saw guns as one of the great things of life. ibid.
The American dream was clubbing itself to death. ibid. Hunter
He drove everyone batshit nuts. ibid. former landlord
My first act as sheriff will be to install on the courthouse lawn a set of stocks in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion. ibid. Hunter
Hunter Thomson has no grip on reality. I think he’s psychotic. ibid. dude
We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. ibid. Hunter
Every deadline was a crisis. ibid.
There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptuous and hopeless dishonest old hack Hubert Humphries is. ibid.
Bring me two Margaritas and six beers. ibid. Hunter’s reported order to waitress
It will probably be a while before the anst lifts. ibid. Depp reads Hunter
The downfall of an American hero, the defeat of a president, the sick world of Las Vegas, and the violent anarchy of the Hells Angels – part of the chronicle of the death of the American dream created by journalist Hunter Thompson. Tonight’s Omnibus makes a valiant attempt to follow Thompson and English artist Ralph Steadman on a wild trip across America. Omnibus: Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, BBC 1978
We might just be safe on this journey. I don’t know. ibid. Omnibus journalist
Doctor Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman have worked together on articles in Rolling Stone magazine … a kind of cult hero, his articles are obsessed with an America gone wrong. ibid.
In 1970 he stood for political office as sheriff for his home town Aspen in Colorado … and was only narrowly defeated. ibid.
Julian Crawford? I don’t believe you … and you say they are blackmailing Crawford? Look, I don’t touch this sort of story any more. I used to. ITV Playhouse: Rumour, Sam to Lisa Curtis, ITV 1970
Lisa Curtis suggested there was some kind of organisation behind it. ibid. Sam to Mike
Rumours hurt people … Rumour is a lethal weapon. Unfortunately, Fleet Street and Westminster thrive on it. ibid. Mike
The nightmarish world Lisa moved in and the men she met there. ibid. Sam
Nobody cares. You’re all blind. ibid.
Television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and incense. And television and those who finance it, those who look and those who work in it may see a totally different picture tonight. Good Night & Good Luck 2005 starring George Clooney & David Strathairn & Patricia Clarkson & Robert Downey jr & Frank Langella & Jeff Daniels & Tate Donovan & Ray Wise & Helen Slayton-Hughes & Alex Borstein et al, director George Clooney, Murrow
Fellas, the next show is going to be about Senator McCarthy. I’m going to go right at it. ibid. Fred
Twice he [McCarthy] said the American Civil Liberties Union was listed as a subversive front. The Attorney General’s list does not and has never listed the ACLU, nor does the FBI or any other government organisation. ibid. Murrow
The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one. ibid.
[Nixon]: ‘He’s [Seymour Hersh] a son of a bitch but he’s usually right.’ Cover-Up, Netflix 2025
There are five major bases in the United States for the production of chemical and biological weapons, and research into them. ibid. Seymour Hersh
I’d love not to talk about sources. ibid.
Vietnam: I was generally felling useless in a sense. I had just a sense of unease about where I was and where the war was. There was this big story that seemed impossible. There’s something called the truth. There was just this massive truth out there. And there was just, I didn’t see a way to get to it. And I worried about it. ibid.
Lieutenant Calley was charged with killing 109 people … I decided I had to go find Calley. ibid.
Calley gives me this look – Maybe I’m the fall guy. ibid.
They tried to keep it secret. I broke that game up. The Pentagon view of this is that Calley is some sort of madman. And it raises a very real question: Were there really orders to shoot everything in the village? And if so, is this being done all the time? ibid.
How did it happen – the descent into madness? ibid.
‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer.’ ibid. mother of Vietnam grunt
The Pinkville massacre: I Shot Down Babies … it’s just one them things. ibid. Daily Mirror headline
Exclusive pictures, eyewitness accounts: The Massacre at Mylai. ibid. Life magazine
Pinkville: The Massacre That Chilled The World … ‘All of a sudden the GIs just opened fire on the women and children … I couldn’t believe what I was seeing’. ibid. Daily Mirror front page Friday, November 21st 1969
We’ve been sort of committed to a program of almost at random murder, rape etc. I think everybody just looked the other way. ibid. Seymour, black-n-white TV interview
A couple of times I couldn’t take it any more. ibid. Seymour
Seymour Hersh’s War On The CIA By William A Rusher. ibid. newspaper article
Operation Chaos [CIA undermining of student anti-war protests] was just the tip of the iceberg. ibid. Seymour
We do know that the CIA in the late 50s they were trying to make a Manchurian Candidate using LSD: M K Ultra. ibid.
Every book I did got people mad: Chemical & Biological Warfare: America’s Hidden Arsenal … Cover-Up … The Price of Power: Kissing in the Nixon White House … The Samson Option: The Dark Side of Camelot. ibid.
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline: The New York Times called it a “mystery”, but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret - until now. Ibid. Seymour Hersh online article 8th February 2023
Abu Ghraib: The report had been bad enough but then I got photographs. They were horrifying. ibid. Seymour