“I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.” PersonsImportantPagesDressesSellsEditorialsVogueCharlotte Author:Bruce Oldfield
“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.” PeopleWritingImportantChoicesGivenNationsOpinionPositionReaderPerceptionPagesPublishersColumnsEditorialsImplicit Author:Daniel Okrent
“I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.” ThinkingMeanPersonsStreetsMediaWallPagesAngryWingsAdministrationMainstreamJournalFoxesRight WingEditorialsMainstream MediaWall Street JournalAngry Person Author:Al Franken
“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.” FirstsSchoolSportsCareersCollegePaperPagesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsUnusualEditorials Author:Buzz Bissinger
“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.” ImportantFactsAmericaInterestingOpinionPagesDecidedOppositesMethodPrintCleaningEditorialsIgnoring Facts Author:Herbert Bayard Swope
“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.” NeedsStyleNewsPagesNewspapersCleverSatireOriginalityAccuracyHeadlinesEditorialsCondensationLiterary Style Author:Joseph Pulitzer
“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.” MenSeemsGirlCareersFashionParticularTypePagesMagazinesDamageCharmPsychicsEditorialsPlayboy Author:Alison Lurie
“The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.” ThinkingWantStoriesUseRunningAsksAnswersMediaFrontsNewsPagesExcuseExtensionsPollsEditorialsNews Stories Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.” IfsNeedsFirstsTodayYoungPagesConvincedEditorsManuscriptsStinkEditorialsYoung WritersFamous Writers Book:Toward a new poetry Source: Toward a new poetry
“There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.” UsedReadingHouseSportsEnjoyPagesTablesCoffeeNewspapersPlentyMailGuardianEditorialsTelegraphFixtureDaily Mail Author:Lionel Barber
“I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.” PeopleGivingHoursPayAttentionOpinionWatchesTvsPagesEndlessPay AttentionFrustratingEditorialsColumnists Author:George W. Bush
“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.” PeopleUseJobsFilmSportsTearsStrangePagesCamerasFortunePhotographMagazinesDevelopingFakeDepartmentAdsSheetsLabsDeliveringEditorialsSports Illustrated Author:Richard Prince
“I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesStudyInformationConflictPagesHappeningsInstitutionsWingsEnterpriseReportsRight WingInstituteEditorialsHandouts Author:Ishmael Reed
“I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.” PeopleThinkingKindCoursesAttentionPagesNewspapersIronicCartoonEditorials Author:Terry Mosher
“[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.” FactsStarsPagesVery GoodMagazinesPostsEditorsReportersMaxEditorialsMeg Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.” ThinkingCountryPagesTraditionTownsPostsBalancedConsideringEditorials Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.” PagesClaimsCriticsContraryBelieverFree MarketArdentEditorials Author:Barack Obama
“There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.” IfsNeedsLooksBusinessEconomyReaderPagesCentsAdvertisementsEditorialsAdvertising Agencies Book:Confessions of an advertising man Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.” PoliticalForceCommunityOpinionInvolvedPaperPagesLocalsIdeologyIntroducingGet InvolvedProvocativeEditorialsPolitical Ideology Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.” IfsMeanExistenceMorningNew YorkPagesWake UpSorryNew York TimesEditorials Author:Karl Rove
“Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensPagesEditorials Author:Tom Wolfe