“Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity,
none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses
to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat.
“Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the
time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.”
—Russell
Baker (1925-2019), double Pulitzer Prize-winning author
and columnist. Image, 1979.
• Editorial Comment: Excuses, excuses.
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