Day: July 23, 2008

Inconvenient reporter

We know Big O. has thrown various people under the bus, but this time he threw one off:

The campaign received 200 requests for press seats on the plane.

Among those for whom there was no room [on the way to Mideast] was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious about the magazine’s satirical cover this week, cited space constraints in turning him away.

That’s how messiahs do it?

Later: See here for extended not-so-sure from the Huff Post man who gave us the above.  Or did he?  These gabby libs are something else.

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There’s something about a newspaper . . .

Went looking through The Quote Garden a while back and found these apt observations, which I hereby “share with you,” as people say these days:

* The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

* Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

— G.K. Chesterton

* We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

— The Houghton Line, November 1965

* News is history shot on the wing.

Gene Fowler, Skyline

 * It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

— Charles Osgood

* Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.

— Horizon, “Electronic Frontier”

* I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.

— Earl Warren [who hadn’t been reading about the Cubs at least since 1945], quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968

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