I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Quote by Herbert Bayard Swope

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The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang...

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang...

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first...

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first...

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang...

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang...

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it...

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it...

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it...

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it...

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can...

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my...

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from [pool coverage of] military operations is...

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from [pool coverage of] military operations is...

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's...

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which...

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which...

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more...

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through,...

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through,...