Journalism Relevance Quotes

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

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.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

I think we're more relevant than ever because it is such a noisy environment out there. What's a journalist now? It's anybody with a way to get information out and you're sitting there with your smartphone in front of you. That's what we're up against now. There's a lot of unfiltered information. Some of it is accurate, some of it way off base. We're that safe port in the storm.