With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.