Leonard Pitts: What journalists do

“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.” — Lyndon Johnson“They are a sort of assassins. …” — John Quincy Adams"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president." — Jimmy Carter“The president of the United States will not stand and be questioned like a chicken thief by men whose names he does not even know.” &