David Halberstam Quotes

United States, Journalist
April 10, 1934 – April, 23, 2007.

David Halberstam was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007, while doing research for a book.

Also known as Historian

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam
- World
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

David Halberstam
- Truth

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

David Halberstam
- America
- Excellence
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

David Halberstam
- Career
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

David Halberstam
- World
- Book
- Today