"In the age of the internet when everybody’s a pundit, we’re still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that’s very expensive."
― Walter Isaacson
Topic(s):
Age
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- "I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding."
More In Age
- "Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."― Johnny Ball
- "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."― Thomas Jefferson