Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.
From Pete Hamill
Everybody needs an editor.
You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.
Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.
Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices and hard work are no longer honored.
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