Thomas Griffith American Editor Quotations

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

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