Monday, August 15, 2005

nice doggy

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They say nowadays that on the Internet you can't tell if you're a dog...
- L. Gordon Crovitz, Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company;
President, Electronic Publishing
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...Beyond mentoring Mr. Crovitz, [Robert] Bartley inculcated in him the conviction that newspapers are meant to be sold. That meant lively writing. That meant ideas needed to be argued forcefully and persuasively. That meant never taking liberties with the facts. And that also meant sometimes taking editorial positions that weren't exactly cheered in every constituency of the polity...
- Pranay Gupte, Senior Writer and Global-Affairs Columnist.



The Straits Times need more of such people like Mr Crovitz.

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