No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.