Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.