The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

There is no democracy without journalism.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.