Generals who can write always make me nervous.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

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.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

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.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

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