We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it. Elmer Davis Read Quote
The chief characteristic of ‘The Tribune’ under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. ‘Immoral and degrading police reports,’ and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. Elmer Davis Read Quote
There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war – but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it. Elmer Davis Read Quote
The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines. Elmer Davis Read Quote
It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. Elmer Davis Read Quote
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. Elmer Davis Read Quote
New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended ‘The Times’ almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together. Elmer Davis Read Quote
