18 ordspråk av James Reston

James Reston

James Reston

James Reston föddes den 3 november 1909 och dog den 6 december 1995 - Scottish-US journalist
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Demokrati är teorin om att vanliga människor kan göra ovanliga saker.

En krönika i en dagstidning skall i likhet med fisk intas medan den är färsk. Sedan blir den inte bara svårsmält utan också obeskrivlig.

Journalist och Tidningar

Det är inte att skriva en krönika som är det svåra. Allt man behöver göra, som min gamle kollega Red Smith brukade säga, är att öppna en åder och låta det blöda. Men har man en deadline sover man oroligt natten innan.

Journalist och Tidningar

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion

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