If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.