Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.