72 Quotes by Linda Ellerbee

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.