I don’t spend most of my life in front of the media.

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay...

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins...

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a...