"The press is, almost without exception, corrupt."
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"More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another."
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"The real news is bad news."
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"Anyone who does investigative journalism is not in it for the money. Investigative journalism by nature is the most work intensive kind of journalism you can take on. That's why you see less and less investigative journalism at newspapers and magazines. No matter what you're paid for it, you put in so many man-hours it's one of the least lucrative aspects of journalism you can take on."
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"There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism."
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"A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand."
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"It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it."
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"I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned."
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"I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and also to get into the nitty gritty of drug policy that you don't really see written about anywhere else."
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"I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed."
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"Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time."
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"It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism."
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"Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve."
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"Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite."
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"Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important."
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"As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams."
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"Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am."
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"Journalism keeps you planted in the earth."
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"Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press."
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"The press is the fourth estate of the realm."
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