The News About the News Quotes

“Journalists have to trust one another, and their own judgment.”
― Leonard Downie Jr., The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril

“The autonomy and sense of responsibility of individual journalists is the key to the morning miracle. Because each knows what to do and does it, the paper appears every morning.”
― Leonard Downie Jr., The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril

“The New York Times and the Washington Post each contain roughly 100,000 words a day—about as many as this book. A typical NBC Nightly News broadcast contains 3,600 words.”
― Leonard Downie Jr., The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril

“Figures provided by government agencies could never be accepted without further checking.”
― Leonard Downie Jr., The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril