Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting..

I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was ….

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors..

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what….

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth..

[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers survive, b….

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding..

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them..

I think America has a brilliant future..

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic….

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches..

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad..

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the we….

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news orga….

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms..

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat..

I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they report….

Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's ther….

Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electro….

If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can't be fou….

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a….