Edwin Diamond Covering politics is fun. It's covering government that's work. PBS Frontline They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks. Harlan Ellsin News is what someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. Harold Evans, Editor of the London Times The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose.
The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill. You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.