Pastoral Resources

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

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.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.