Quotes About Journalism

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

Misery sells newspapers.

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

I can't comment on every article in the newspapers.

My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys' dynasties of the '70s and '90s, wrote about Michael Jordan in Chicago and Barry Bonds in the Bay Area, even wrote columns for ESPN.com from 2004 to 2006.

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with you.

I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at seven, sometimes at midnight, sometimes not at all; and I never get to bed until four or five in the morning. Everything depends on the news; the hours make no difference to me.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.