Editorial Content Quotes

The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

The [London] Times has made many ministries.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.