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The First Duty of a newspaper is to be Accurate. If it is Accurate, it follows that it is Fair.

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

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He [Swope] enunciated no rules for success, but offered a sure formula for failure: Just try to please everyone.

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Herbert Bayard Swope

Herbert Bayard Swope
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Born: January 5, 1882
Died: June 20, 1958 (aged 76)
Bio: Herbert Bayard Swope Sr. was a U.S. editor, journalist and intimate of the Algonquin Round Table. Swope spent most of his career at the New York World newspaper. He was the first and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting.

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