Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

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.