226 quotes found
“Why did you become a journalist?”“Better than working for a living.”
“Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip, developing leads, fleshing-out the de...”
“Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.”
“Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.”
“Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.”
“The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
