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.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.

Education was central to reporting.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,