Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. Russell Baker Read Quote
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there’s a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. Russell Baker Read Quote
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. Russell Baker Read Quote
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. Russell Baker Read Quote
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers’ own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. Russell Baker Read Quote
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism’s problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. Russell Baker Read Quote
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. Russell Baker Read Quote
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Russell Baker Read Quote
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. Russell Baker Read Quote