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

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

You never monkey with the truth.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

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.

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