Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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.
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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.
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.