David Halberstam Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Halberstam
David Halberstam Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person - the two are often different.
As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive - both aesthetically and commercially.
One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.
The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
He was more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.
He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism.
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
The little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.
Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it
He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.