David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt."
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"You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt."
"لا يمكنك إثبات البراءة أبدًا، لا في مواجهة رجل يكفيه أن يلمح إلى الذنب."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,"
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter’s career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. “All they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It’s like a presidential primary over there,"
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
"he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance."
David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
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