Quotes by Editors

It is a strange experience to have another person spit on you. Bari Weiss

You Strange Experience Spit Another Person

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism. Bari Weiss

I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position. Bari Weiss

Think Am Very Politically Being Which Used Homeless Jewish Position

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood. Ben Bradlee

Potomac Like Flood Champagne Flowing

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit. Ben Bradlee

Cronkite Give Lot Whole Credit

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast. Ben Bradlee

Pressure Broadcast Nixon Run Administration Put Lot Really Second

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right. Ben Bradlee

Tough Carrying Would Tough Thing Take Were Been Off Stories Woodward Decide Story Us Really Coal Right Thing

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right. Ben Bradlee

Mistake Made Only Real Were Then Even Right

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. Ben Bradlee

About Slush Testify Were Did Jury Grand Grand Jury Fund Right

When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility. Bethany McLean

Something He His Very Warren Warren Buffett Unique Company Credibility

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean

Live City Embraced More Chicago Privatization Than Where Eagerly

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread. Bethany McLean

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. Bill F. Walsh

Editing Phone Every Rules Phone Number Must Checked Sort Inexcusable Error Any Published Cardinal Copy Number Incorrect

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment. Bill F. Walsh

Nothing Compliment More Sincere Praise Effective Than Accurate Lame

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. Bill Keller

Technology Every Press Some Price Printing Printing Press Including

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time. Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. Bill Keller

Discipline Thrive Dissent Liberation Punish Deviation Operating Suspicion Movements

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. Bill Keller

Nice Ring Beating Up So-Called Media Populist Elite