Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
David HalberstamThese days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
David HalberstamThere are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.
David Halberstam