David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves."

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"he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"The telephone was a sign of being rushed."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),"

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Education was central to reporting."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,"

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"All professions have some element of theater to them."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

"Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy."

David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

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