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Russell Baker | education

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.

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Dreams Russell Baker

Russell Baker | dreams

Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

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Death Russell Baker

Russell Baker | death

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

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Russell Baker | change

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know.

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car Russell Baker

Russell Baker | car

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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Russell Baker | car

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools.

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business Russell Baker

Russell Baker | business

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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business Russell Baker

Russell Baker | business

Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter.

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business Russell Baker

Russell Baker | business

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism’s problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

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business Russell Baker

Russell Baker | business

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers’ own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

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