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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

~David Halberstam

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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

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Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

~David Halberstam

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With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

~David Halberstam

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No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

~David Halberstam

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 10th, 1934

Died: April 23rd, 2007

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