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

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man

I was likened to Neville Chamberlain. I was a Quisling, to the (journalism) profession.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Journalism was seen as a hack profession that had very little style, very little grace. After In Cold Blood , people saw real-life stories in a different way.

A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.