“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.”

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."Hubbard, Elbert”

“The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”

“They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.Nothing grabs an editor's eye like a good rape.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”