The Lede Quotes

“the Columbia School of Journalism might want to have etched in stone over its front entrance the motto “Too good to check.”
― Calvin Trillin, The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

“I propounded a theory that The New Yorker purposely included in each issue one cartoon that wasn’t funny at all, so that the reader would assume that he must be witnessing “subtle humor beyond his power of perception,”
― Calvin Trillin, The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

“objective journalism: we were equally inaccurate about both sides. I later learned another version from a photographer on a Little Rock paper. He said when he had an assignment to take someone’s picture, he’d stop at the city desk and say, “Do you want him gazing out at the sunset or picking his nose?”
― Calvin Trillin, The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press