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

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.