Philip Seib > Quotes

“When the Carlton Club, A Conservative Party bastion in London, was badly damaged by bombs and Churchill remarked that he was surprised that no one had been killed, a Labor Party official replied, "The devil looks after his own.”
― Philip Seib, Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War

“After all, television is confined to a glass box. No matter how gruesome the scenes on the screen may be, no blood will spill on the carpet. No matter how close television seems to be bring the day's events, they always remain distant enough to be viewed with dispassion. The global village can be visited and abandoned at will.”
― Philip Seib, Going Live: Getting the News Right in a Real-Time, Online World

“When Mathewson arrived in the majors, most first class and many second class hotels would not host big league teams for fear that the players' behavior would offend other guests. The hotels that did admit ballplayers often made them eat in a separate dining room. Players were well known for pinching waitresses and wrecking furniture, and if they didn't like the steaks they were served, they would nail them to the restaurant's walls.”
― Philip Seib, The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century