Seymour Hersh Quotes

Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

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

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.