There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.