high-powered.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden...

Journalism is not just a cause, it’s also a wacky profession.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

Better than working for a living.

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future

Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He was inclined to worry that too many reporters on the metropolitan...

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for...

Now listen,’ said George angrily, ‘I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.”Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on,...

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted...

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause – but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it’s a political...

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for instants recall. More than any other editor at the Post, or Bernstein and Woodward, Sussman became a...

(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)’Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you’This took me by surprise. ‘Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

I don’t think a tough question is disrespectful.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn’t feel trustworthy. Sometimes it’s a quote or incident that’s too perfect —a feeling I always had when...

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

Traditional journalism is the outside looking in. Citizen journalism is the inside looking out. In order to get the complete story, it helps to have both point of views.

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

If you’re not pitching, stop bitching

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without...

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn’t have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on...

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren’t better. We weren’t worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman...

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall....

We have to defend views we don’t share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don’t understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can’t have ideas of our own, we have...

If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post’s largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, pacing, working his facial expressions...

a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda” by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which...

In an expansive attempt to establish a foothold among California’s intelligentsia and create America’s first truly national newspaper, The New York Times launched a slimmed-down West Coast edition in October 1962… The result in LA...

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and...

Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t...

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges...

In early 1970, Newsweek’s editors decided that the new women’s liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

There hasn’t been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

Freedom of the press can never be the licence to say anything one desires. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to slander and attack and must never be used to fight other people’s...