If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

— David Halberstam

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trip made the world seem far more understandable.

— David Halberstam

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance, and now it was more and more productivity.

— David Halberstam

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

— David Halberstam

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

— David Halberstam

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

— David Halberstam

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his experiences.

— David Halberstam

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

— David Halberstam

Moor was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

— David Halberstam

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

— David Halberstam