Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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.

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.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

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

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

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

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

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.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or anywhere else.