The Kingdom and the Power Quotes

“I am not used to being called a son-of-a-bitch,” Sulzberger remarked to an editor after one unpleasant experience, “but I suppose I shall learn to like it.”
― Gay Talese, The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

“Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.”
― Gay Talese, The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

“Perhaps part of the problem, he thought, was that the world was changing faster than people were able to change themselves, and the leaders in government and the press were being guided by theories and assumptions that had once worked but were now outmoded.”
― Gay Talese, The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World