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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.