"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Journalism, Writing, Belief, Language

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Journalism, Truth, Life, Death

"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Journalism, Controversy

"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

Journalism, Cats, Curiosity

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

Journalism, Vocabulary

"I've been with the paper for almost 30 years."

Robert Scheer, American Journalist

Journalism, Years

"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."

Robert Scheer, American Journalist

Journalism,

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

Journalism, Committee, Congress, Events

"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."

David Talbot, American Journalist

Journalism, Presidency

"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."

David Talbot, American Journalist

Journalism, Radical, Sound, Will

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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."

"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."

"I've been with the paper for almost 30 years."

"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."

"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."

"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."

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"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."

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"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."

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"Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking."

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"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."