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I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it.

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I think that we as a culture, not just in entertainment journalism, but in general the boundaries have become extreme. You know, all bets are off and it seems that there's not much that we consider off limits. I'm just glad that I was in it at the time when I was, which just seemed like - maybe everybody feels that way then they do a look back on their life and career. And I always think for me, my motto is 'ever forward' and I think that's the best way to live your life.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

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.

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

I was able to study 50 years of leadership theory and practicum in my master's program at Seton Hall, and it has provided the backbone of the knowledge we use every day. My undergraduate work was in journalism, and my early work as a newspaper reporter taught me how to research, write, and rewrite.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.