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David Halberstam Quotes
Page 1 of 1David Halberstam
April 10, 1934 - April 23, 2007
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist
|  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. | | 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. | | 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. | | Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. | | 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. |
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