I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.