Journalism Quotes

"The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life."

"I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter."

"In covering breaking news, there's no better way than using a helicopter."

"Subscriptions is the bulk of our business; ads are nice to have on top of that."

“Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.”

“I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter: nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.”

“I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.”

"The New York Times" is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.”

“We're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level: increased pressure for profits, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff, one giant infotainment industry.”

“I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.”

“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence.”

“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”

“On the "Star," you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone.”