~ Journalism is organized gossip. ~
~ Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ~
~ Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~
~ We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space. ~
~ Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~
~ Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. ~
~ The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ~
~ The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. ~
~ Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. ~
~ Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. ~
~ Journalism is in fact history on the run. ~
~ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ~