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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.