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I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

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.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.