Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.