I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.
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.
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Anyone who does investigative journalism is not in it for the money. Investigative journalism by nature is the most work intensive kind of journalism you can take on. That's why you see less and less investigative journalism at newspapers and magazines. No matter what you're paid for it, you put in so many man-hours it's one of the least lucrative aspects of journalism you can take on.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
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.
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
Journalism is an act of faith in the future
In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
Journalism is less addictive than communism.
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.