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David Halberstam Quotes

Type:
Journalist Quotes
Category:
American Journalist Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 10, 1934
Date of Death:
April 23, 2007
Nationality:
American
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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
David Halberstam

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
David Halberstam

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
David Halberstam


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