I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.