Editorial Quotes

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling people what they think, not what you think. - Arthur Brisbane

Wintour is fur-bearing animals' worst enemy because her magazine continues to feature dozens of pags of pro-fur editorials and advertising each year. - Yvonne Taylor

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story should be sacred. - Steve Outing

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. - Scott McCloud

When there are 100 HD channels to choose from, just being in HD won't be a big deal. By 2010, or maybe before, our channels have to stand on their own for their editorial merit. But we are fully up to that task. - Greg Moyer

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. - David Fincher

When I was editor (of the paper) we disagreed violently about certain things but he never interfered with editorial matters. - John Maxwell

When Bob Novak wrote that column he wrote it for the Chicago Sun-Times. And I was not privy to who his sources were . . . that did not go through the editorial process at CNN. He has broken no laws and he has distinguished himself as a journalist for many, many years . . . He brings a different voice to our air. - Jim Walton

We've had some good discussion with LPGA. As a result of those discussions, it looks to us now that their intention was to provide appropriate access and full editorial use by the AP of information and photos obtained at their events. We're optimistic that further discussions will reflect and address the goals and concerns of both AP and the LPGA. - Dave Tomlin

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards. - Michael D. Barnes