Helen Thomas Quotes
Every President hates the Press.
Thomas, Helen. Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times. Scribner, 1999.
The story had been placed by Republican dirty tricksters throughout the press. Reston, then the editor of the New York Times, was totally uninterested in whether or not the story was true. He, in contrast to some other NYT staff was not a JFK enthusiast in general. but saw such material as not news and certainly not “fit to print.”—the newspaper’s oldest journalistic standard He removed the reporter from the assignment but in such a climate, it is easy to see in retrospect why the JFK sex scandals were not covered by the press.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Sherman was one of the few military leaders who tended to always get good press coverage and who did not develop good relations with the newsmen. He tended to excoriate them although at a personal level he made a disctinction between the worst and the best.
And the New York press is probably the most difficult and cynical in the world.
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Ironically politicians need the journalists to communicate their message adn get public exposure and the Journalists need the politicians to provide subject matter and to serve as sources. Each uses the other which produces resentment.
Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
