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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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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
January 5, 1882
Died:
June 20, 1958
(aged 76)
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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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