Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.
All news is an exaggeration of life.
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Headlines twice the size of the events.
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.
