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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.

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

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.