Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place.

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.