Timothy Crouse > Quotes

“But the Nixon Administration gave the press an identity of its own, separate from the public interest, and then began to characterize the press either as friendly or hostile or what have you.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“You should never place your trust in a politician.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“Celebrities were standing in little pools of charisma.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“In fact, you could effectively say that Richard Nixon has abolished the Presidential press conference as an institution. He may grant two or three a year, but when they’re that infrequent they don’t really mean anything.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“Now the press screened the candidates”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“He had met only one decent person the whole time—Bill Cardoso,”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“A charge is usually put on the front page; the defense is buried among the deodorant ads,” he said.)”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that “the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“He realized from the start that Wallace only thrived on attacks from the Eastern press,”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“that all political types ought to be regarded as guilty until proven innocent.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“Campaign coverage began to settle into a neat and comfortable science around the time of Theodore Roosevelt, the first big-time American politician to rationalize the handing out of news.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“But there are risks to the politics of rectitude.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“he deplored the rise of advocacy journalism.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus

“Nixon had roughly the same number of friends in the press as he did in Alger Hiss’ immediate family.”
― Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus