Thomas B. Griffith Quotes

• The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Novelty, News, Abandoned

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• Journalism is in fact history on the run.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Running, Facts, Journalism

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• Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Running, Grateful, Thinking

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• Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Pms, White, House

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• To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Powerful, Media, Groups

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