he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

(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),

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.