The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
Journalism is organized gossip.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
Flirtation: attention without intention.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.
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