Thomas Griffith 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.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

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.

This was nothing but a tragic, awful accident.

I think it's going very well. I think Judge Peters has given them a nice explanation.

To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version-whether the event itself was a flop or a success.

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

I can understand why he said the things. It puts him in a better light. He feels guilty about the situation. He knows he caused this. It wasn't intentional, but he knows he caused it.