David Talbot Quotes

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• I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

  David Talbot

  Regret, Imagine, Salons

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• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

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  Change, Political, Frustrated

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• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

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  Thinking, Media, People

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• I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

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  Writing, Epic, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

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  Change, College, Sound

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• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

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  New York, Moving, Sleep

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• My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

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  College, Literature, Favorites Things

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• I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

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  Business, Teenager, Integrity

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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

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  White, Florida, House

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• I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

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  School, College, High School

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• Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

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  Causes, Journalism, Profession

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• EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

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  Rising, Incredibles, Projects

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• We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.

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  Upgrading, Roger, Rating

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

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  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

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  Opportunity, Entry, Investors

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• EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

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  Agreement, Assets, Sells

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• Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

  David Talbot

  Wells, Mining

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• FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

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  Discovery, Stories, Exciting

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• They may be a little more high brow than we are.

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  Literature, May, Littles

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• There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

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  Media, Literature, Brands

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• It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

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  Play, Issues, Everyday

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• Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

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  Important, Literature, Scrap

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

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  Country, War, Media

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• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

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  School, Santa, Journalism

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• Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

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  News Stories, Years, Marketing

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